#block

Often when you get a really good script, and you receive the new pages, you see that the entire thing has been dumbed down. Films in the '30s and '40s, that were huge blockbusters, were very sophisticated in their language, and the ideas they brought. There were no questions about whether the audience would get it or not. ↗

— Connie Nielsen

#audience #been #blockbusters #brought #down

The NFL offensive blocking is played differently; they use their hands instead of their head and shoulders. ↗

— Jim Otto

#differently #hands #head #instead #nfl

Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the journalist's toolkit. But when scepticism becomes cynicism it can close off thought and block the search for truth. ↗

— Jeremy Paxman

#block #close #cynicism #journalist #necessary

Well, look at all of these summer blockbusters. You can't help but laugh a little, because you've already seen a lot of these movies 482 times. ↗

— Sean Penn

#because #blockbusters #help #laugh #little

I have a great career, and no matter what I am doing, a big blockbuster movie... or my small documentary, David Letterman will call and say I would like you to sit on my couch. ↗

— Rosie Perez

#big #blockbuster #call #career #couch

At my second record label, they told me and other female artists that some of us were going on the chopping block. I was 19... and it was devastating. ↗

— Katy Perry

#block #chopping #devastating #female #female artists

In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain. ↗

— Phaedrus

#brain #gilded #outward #show #splendid

And, you know, being able to wear the stars and stripes, when you step up on one of the blocks or, you know, when you step off of an airplane or when you hear the national anthem play, you know, it's one of the greatest feelings in the world because you know that there are people at home who are supporting you and watching you. ↗

— Michael Phelps

#airplane #anthem #because #being #blocks

I don't believe in writer's block. Think about it - when you were blocked in college and had to write a paper, didn't it always manage to fix itself the night before the paper was due? Writer's block is having too much time on your hands. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#always #before #believe #block #blocked

Writer's block is for people who have the luxury of time. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#luxury #people #time #who #writer