I am a firm believer that you can make a difference in someone's life - whether they're thousands of miles away, or on your own block.
I hated having to go out on the block and scramble - that's the worst job in the world, especially if you ain't making any real money.
That walk around the block, that fresh air, is going to help you work more quickly and effectively when you get back.
I realized that people don't quite understand what I do when I was the new kid on the block and a lot of Hollywood was offering me fairly cheesy projects.
The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.
And opposite the bench, the dock, divided by a partition, with the women to the left and the men to the right, as it is on the stairs or the block in polite society.
To choose and be so adamant about this exact location just a block or two away from 9/11, again is that knife, it feels like.
Clarity precedes mastery. Craft clear and precise plans/goals/deliverables. And then block out all else.
The same day I was supposed to go to college, I ended up hitting the studio and then poppin' out on the block after that.
The downs are the times when you lose sight of who you are and that happens along the way sometimes...Writer's block when you doubt yourself and you get insecure.
Running has become so therapeutic for me because I block out all thoughts or get really crystal clear business ideas.
Too many of our children cannot read. Reading is the building block, and it must be the foundation for education reform.
Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming.
I can multitask very well. But I know exactly when to block off anything coming in from the outside and just stay focused on the film.
158 Lewis Avenue between Lafayette and Van Buren, that was back durin days of hangin' on my bed-stuy block
Everyone faces defeat. It may be a stepping-stone or a stumbling block, depending on the mental attitude with which it is faced.
I try to think of it not as writer's block, but a time where you just need to live life and experience things so you have something to write about.
If you don't educate yourself, you'll never get out of the starting block because you'll spend all your money making foolish decisions.
If you are sitting on the title of any block of land in New South Wales you can bet an Aboriginal person at some stage was dispossessed of it.
I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else.
Perhaps one day we'll be able to identify and block not just scams but the scammers themselves - before they even target their first victim.
Why should antitrust laws be used to block mergers that the market, by the existence of willing buyers and sellers, shows to be desirable?
I've learned... That simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult.
I'm not the type that's going to sit and preach to people if they don't need it just because I've been around the block a few times.
When you're writing in big block paragraphs, you can afford to have a redundant sentence now and then, but the Twitter format requires concision.
Utopians...consider individual freedom as the stumbling block on which the grandiose idea of mankind's totalization may flounder.
Mr. Speaker, we have reached a point in history where some have forgotten that it is the family, not the government, that is the fundamental building block of our society.
Now [Sue Grafton] loves writer's block, seeing it as a message from the psyche that the narrative is headed in the wrong direction.
If we attempt to block the development of new technology, we effectively have ensured that the most responsible parties will not develop them.
I feel like you'll be most successful in life if you just try to block the noise, sometimes the hate can be louder than the love.
Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
There are a lot of people who give you the message that maybe you are not good enough, and the best thing you can do for yourself is to block out all of that noise.
I built my first car at 16. I was really lucky, because at the back of my parents' house, there was a block of about five garages.
This marched was planned to be non violent and non confrontational, and gladly it stayed that way. What really impressed me was the self discipline of the Black Block.
I get writer's block all the time. The only way I can write what I consider to be good lyrics is to put myself through the mill.
When my brother, Todd [Fisher], was born my father was already with Elizabeth [Taylor]. I was 19 or 20 when I first spent a block of time with him.
I don't believe in getting mad if a guy misses a block and I get hit. I don't yell at the players. Everybody gets beat sometime.
The statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish.
Working memory capacity is really the ability to hold and manipulate information while you're actively trying to block out distraction.
I cannot live without flowers everywhere. I grew up having a big garden, the size of a city block, in Rombas.
A hero is a goddam stupid thing to have in the first place and a general block to anything you might wanta accomplish on your own.
Internet service providers should not be permitted to block, throttle and unfairly favor certain content, applications, services or devices.
Stress and worry, they solve nothing. What they do is block creativity. You are not even able to think about the solutions. Every problem has a solution.
First year in the league, I tried to block everything. And I'd foul out. I averaged the most fouls per minute.
I got so tired of everybody talking about 'Stranger Things,' I think I developed a mental block against watching it.
I think I was always driven because I came from absolutely nothing. I was that piece of rubbish from a block of flats on a council estate.
An imbalanced association is when one or both parties become abusive and takes unfair advantage, tries to block another's enlightenment or success.
My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?
I don't usually think of my writing as a 'challenge' because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped me to avoid 'writer's block' all these years.
Writer's block is your self-critic getting in the way, because creativity will just flow otherwise.
[In The Dark Backward ] someone who has writer's block and kills people in A Cabin By The Lake. I guess he's a type of serial killer, but I don't know.
You know the block was ill as a youngster
Every night it was like a, cop would get killed body found in the dumpster
The actual work of recording a record or making a film just requires that you consciously block the time out to do that and nothing else. That's what I do.
Incumbents have long promoted regulation in the name of protecting consumers when their actual goal is to block new entrants and stifle competition.
One-third of your plays are special teams, so to block a punt and get good field position out of it and score was big.
Racism may be as systemic as it always was. It is the great problem of America. It's the one stumbling block that I don't believe was ever smoothed over.
I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else
No one loves an archive better than I do. I can smell a good one half-a-block away - all that brittle papyrus dust is music to my nostrils.
Poetry cannot block a bullet or still a sjambok, but it can bear witness to brutality-thereby cultivating a flower in a graveyard.
We try so hard to block out negative or dark thoughts, but sometimes embracing your demons is the most vitalizing thing you can do.
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