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I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block.
R. L. Stine

Possible, Writer, Characters

I found the emotion that as an athlete you block out, and it really helped me to understand myself as a person. I'm a really emotional person and it helped make me a better person.
Carl Lewis

Emotional, Person, Understand

Don't block your blessings. Don't let doubt stop you from getting where you want to be.
Jennifer Hudson

Doubt, Blessings, Getting

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

Play, Three, Pick

The government has convinced parents that at some point it's no longer their responsibility. And in fact, they force them, in many respects, to turn their children over to the public education system and wrest control from them and block them out of participation of that. That has to change or education will not improve in this country.
Rick Santorum

Change, Education, Government

Jewish voters are not one homogenous block.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.
Orville Wright

Time, Power, Design

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

Problem, Said, Often

Talent can pop up anywhere in the world, it's not just one city block.
Niklas Zennstrom

Talent, City, Anywhere

One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.
Piers Anthony

Wait, Reason, Writer

The problem with TV now is that there's so much competition, that you're always on the chopping block.
Elisha Cuthbert

Problem, Tv, Chopping

If you do enough planning before you start to write, there's no way you can have writer's block. I do a complete chapter by chapter outline.
R. L. Stine

Enough, Before, Start

My family was always active, and our thing was family walks. Not walks around the block, but more like eight-mile hikes up mountains.
Mika Brzezinski

Family, Around, Mountains

Deciding to write a novel about something - as opposed to finding you are writing a novel around something - sounds to me like a good evocation of writer's block.
Martin Amis

Good, Writing, Around

Charles Haley changed the way the Cowboys played football in the 90s. And the reason why I say that is because he was such a dominant force coming off the edge, where it took two and three to block him.
Emmitt Smith

Football, Him, Two

The beauty of doing film is that you construct whatever you do block by block and you can build something that will stay.
Michel Gondry

Beauty, Whatever, Film

At the end of the block where I used to live in Coconut Grove in Miami, there's a swampy area, a no-name alcove with a little mangrove estuary. It's beautiful.
Karen Russell

Beautiful, Live, End

When I'm rhyming it's all in my head... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would block out their minds. They would sing.
Wyclef Jean

Minds, Head, Sing

To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.
George Takei

Time, Off, Theater

In a sense there is no 'opposition' in Bahrain, as the phrase implies one unified block with the same views. Such a phrase is not in our constitution, unlike say the United Kingdom. We only have people with different views and that's ok.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

Different, Same, Sense

In a sense there is no 'opposition' in Bahrain, as the phrase implies one unified block with the same views.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

Same, Sense, Opposition

I feel as if I became a documentary film-maker only because I had writer's block for four decades. There's no other good reason.
Errol Morris

Good, Reason, Writer

Now that the there is a path for the people of Puerto Rico to express their self-determination on Puerto Rico's political status, there are some who seek to block that path.
Dick Thornburgh

Political, Path, Express

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.
Jim Ryun

Family, History, Government

Most artists have experienced the creative block. We get stuck in our work. We beat our head against the wall: nothing. Sometimes, it is because we are trying something at the wrong time.
Lukas Foss

Work, Time, Nothing

Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood. Far from it. Just a common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm.
Carlo Collodi

Time, Fire, Put

Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing.
Katarina Witt

Focus, Goal, Taught

I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block.
David Guterson

Artist, Writer, Paralyzed

I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case.
Floyd Abrams

War, Government, Important

The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.
Floyd Abrams

Government, Respect, Bad

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