#block

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Maybe I can do some writing then. The phrase made him sick. It had no meaning anymore. Like a word that is repeated until it becomes gibberish that sentence, for him, had been used to extinction. It sounded silly; like some bit of cliché from a soap opera. Hero saying in dramatic tones – Now, by God, maybe I can do some writing. Senseless. For a moment, though, he wondered if it was true. Now that she was leaving could he forget about her and really get some work done? Quit his job? Go somewhere and hold up in a cheap furnished room and write? You have $123.89 in the bank, his mind informed him. He pretended it was the only thing that kept him from it. But, far back in his mind, he wondered if he could write anything. Often the question threw itself at him when he was least expecting it. You have four hours every morning, the statement would rise like a menacing wraith. You have time to write many thousands of words. Why don't you? And the answer was always lost in a tangle of becauses and wells and endless reasons that he clung to like a drowning man at straws.(“Mad House”)


Richard Matheson


#writing #writers-block

Summer blockbusters are very expensive to make. They have things that have to be expensive, such as 600 effects shots or CG characters that have to go a certain way, or a film design that is different but expensive.


Ang Lee


#certain #certain way #characters #design #different

Albania, Macedonia and Greece have managed to create a good partnership in the south of the Continent and are making progress in blocking the spread of the conflict. But any spillover could destroy this European-oriented partnership and create problems for the European Union countries themselves.


Fatos Nano


#any #blocking #conflict #continent #could

Our centers spread the floor, shoot the three and block shots. We can play pick and pop.


Steve Nash


#centers #floor #our #pick #play

This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain.


Shaquille O'Neal


#game #got #hurt #out #pain

I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him.


Yoko Ono


#day #december #every #every day #him

You don't want to line up on the blocks and know you have not done everything you possibly can.


Stephanie Rice


#done #everything #know #line #possibly

Well, I get my subject on Wednesday night; I think it out carefully on Thursday, and make my rough sketch; on Friday morning I begin, and stick to it all day, with my nose well down on the block.


John Tenniel


#begin #block #carefully #day #down

I intentionally aided them by being there and blocking an avenue of escape for the victims.


Robert Iler


#avenue #being #being there #blocking #escape

At the end of the competition, I played the Liszt concerto and I felt my head was on the block. Well, I won.


Andre Boucourechliev


#competition #concerto #end #felt #head