#lock

Lorna was quite young when her mother died, and I think she's blocked out some of the memories. I talked to her a little bit about that, but I wasn't prepared to go around and poke and hurt her. ↗

— Judy Davis

#around #bit #blocked #died #go

I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#i #idea #often #problem #said

I'm not Blockbuster Boy. ↗

— Johnny Depp

#boy #i

Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn't put it down - I locked myself in my room. Now that was antithetical to every other book I was reading at the time because Dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful. ↗

— Joan Didion

#another #antithetical #because #book #down

Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#block #chopping #nothing #past #through

It's only been a couple of times in my life that I've really locked horns with actors. It did not hurt the films, it just hurt the moment of the filmmaking. ↗

— Richard Donner

#couple #did #filmmaking #films #horns

I think my real depressions started when I was about 16 and doing The Patty Duke Show. I would go to bed at about 10 o'clock on a Friday night and not get up again until 6:30 Monday morning. ↗

— Patty Duke

#again #bed #clock #depressions #doing

Health-wise, I couldn't have said what my life expectancy would've been if I'd just carried on doing solid blocks of stand-up. ↗

— Johnny Vegas

#blocks #carried #doing #expectancy #i

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. ↗

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#day #even #right #stopped #twice

The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me. ↗

— Robin Trower

#blues #clock #first #heard #i