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Quit that chatter you block head and do my bidding.
'Attack The Block' is an alien invasion film set in South London. It's about a group of kids who are some petty thugs, who have to find the hero in themselves, when they attack.
We blocked them inside the city. Their rear is blocked.
I've not only been around the block, but I've burned the block down. At least twice.
It's who I am. I can't just pretend to be some normal kid. That won't work either. They'll never leave me alone. But here's what I know: a block is a strike, and the more an adversary thinks he has succeeded, the more devastating the strike will be.
Control or block?" Piper asked.
None but blockheads copy each other.
When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him.
Writer's block is a phony, made up, BS excuse for not doing your work.
Everyone calls him Blockhead
No one sings his praises
Or takes him to heart ...
That is the kind of person
I want to be
If you don't keep pushing the limits, you wake up one day and you're the "center square to block."
When I write I just keep a waste paper basket handy in case I am experiencing a block.
If you feel blocked, do not turn to others, but look inside, in silence, for the enemy of your progress.
I'm there to block your next move. This is a game
You don't want to line up on the blocks and know you have not done everything you possibly can.
It is intolerable that it should be in the power of one blockhead to do so much mischief.
Is there a real life block button? Because I need that in my life.
I'm very curious in regards to "The Hateful Eight" specifically about the blocking of the movie. Because in comedies, we don't block. We basically like have to position the actors' bodies in the way that is most conducive to filming both of them simultaneously.
Are you ready? I'm three blocks past ready. Pardon? Skip it.
The best game plan in the world never blocked or tackled anybody.
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.
One question:do you want to hang ten or BE a ten?-Massie Block
There is no writers' block, it is just a gitch, a gtch, a tch, shhh. Glitch.
forcibly stopped them,
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.
You cannot block someone from your life who doesn't want to be blocked.
Thwart: to prevent someone from accomplishing something by means of visiting gratuitous violence upon his smarmy person.
I tell my students there is such a thing as 'writer's block,' and they should respect it. You shouldn't write through it. It's blocked because it ought to be blocked, because you haven't got it right now.
To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!
Writer's block' is just a fancy way of saying 'I don't feel like doing any work today.
Writer's Block is just an excuse by people who don't write for not writing.
There are few experiences as depressing as that anxious barren state known as writer's block, where you sit staring at your blank page like a cadaver, feeling your mind congeal, feeling you talent run down your leg and into your sock.
No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
Secondhand experience breaks down a block from the car lot.
Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.
Whatever blocks you encounter, you have learned that there is a way over, around or through them. It is not those obstacles that inhibit your progress but your confidence, and will to break the inertia of fear and doubt.
By the time these words are read, the centuries-old cedar, hemlock, and balsm of the cutblock known as Leah Block 2 will be a distant memory, long since processed into siding, two-by-fours, perhaps even the paper that has been recycled into the pages of this book.
That would be one lousy way to end the human race, locked in a nuclear war with the Block while a Drasin fleet came down on all their heads. Not that there are many good ways to end the human race, I suppose.
The agenda of the roadblock is the philosophy of the stop sign.
I didn't even get to the end of the block before I had to stop. As I clutched my knees and wheezed, I caught my reflection in a car window. My face was a violent shade of Call the Ambulance red. My chest heaved like a monstrous jelly.
When the flow of a river is blocked, it overflows or breaks the barriers. Similarly, our emotions can get out of control if their expression is blocked.
A woman asked me recently, "What are the blocks to my happiness?" I said, "The belief that you have blocks."
What's wrong with creative block? Might it not just be that periods
even extended ones
of productive hiatus are essential mechanisms of gestation designed to help us attain higher standards in our pursuit of creative excellence?
Theoretically there's no reason one should get [writer's block], if one understands that writing, after all, is only writing, neither something one ought to feel deeply guilty about nor something one ought to be inordinately proud of.
I only get writer's block about once a day.
I don't believe in "writers block." Lower your standards and keep writing. You can always go back later and make it better. Unless your name is Harlan Ellison, in which case your sentences come out perfectly parsed each time.
Writer's block isn't always a problem. It can be a process of writing that helps us write better.
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.
I don't believe in writers' block. Do doctors have 'doctors block?' Do plumbers have 'plumbers' block?" No. We all have days when we don't feel like working, but why do writers turn that into something so damn special by giving it a faintly romantic name.
I don't experience writer's block, I only have periods of severe writer's diarrhoea; an incoherent mess of unfitting words placed in random sentences. Luckily, I can usually separate the shit from "the shit" later on.
Thwart," I said. "To prevent someone from accomplishing something by means of visiting gratuitous violence upon his smarmy person."
"I'm pretty sure that isn't the definition." Sarissa said.
"It is today.
To get over artist's block, make shitty art.
Writer's block to me is where you stop because you're afraid to go forward because you're not sure of what really should be happening next and you think, my gosh, if I choose this ... you've got a hundred millions of avenues you could possibly go down but it's all an assess of characters.
Death: Do you never stop questioning?
Antonius Block: No. I never stop.
Having writers block sucks more than my actual writing. And my writing would be astonishing if I could write how I feel.
You really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.
Football is and always will be a game of blocking and hitting
Writer's block is when your imaginary friends won't talk to you.
I will block you, you just send me peace of junk...
Patience is nice,... I will wait.
Prescription for writer's block: fear of poverty.
I don't really think of time off as writing blocks. I think that's a western notion of demonizing inactivity. When your imagination decides it needs to take a nap. maybe that's what it needs to do.
The way to get over creative block is to simply place some constraints on yourself. It seems contradictory, but when it comes to creative work, limitations mean freedom.
Writer's block is like a full moon behind the rain clouds.
I had thought of annihilating the entire block that I lived on.
What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything it reads.
I'm a little harsh. When people say, 'I have writers block. What do you suggest?' I say, 'If you can't write, don't write. No one needs your writing. Don't torture yourself.'
What had he said about machines?"
Block was not entirely sure about that. Something about their eventually being able to think, something which the woman said was at odds with the Christian view of things, just like his sexual inclinations.
How do you 'clear' your thoughts? You have only other thoughts with which to do the job; 'thoughts', therefore, are both blockage and broom. I suppose what we mean is that we should stop reasoning and try to 'feel' - which presumes that what we 'feel' is more valuable than anything we think ...
We've been looking at the tower for so long we forgot it's made of blocks; we forgot it can be put back together in a different way.
Legislative blocks are not always simply obstacles to be overcome.
Many times, what people call 'writer's block' is the confusion that happens when a writer has a great idea, but their writing skill is not up to the task of putting that idea down on paper. I think that learning the craft of writing is critical.
I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.
You will never work through writer's block if you walk away from your typewriter. That will only make it easier to walk away the next time.
Beauty breeds beauty, truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read.
I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of "writer's block". I was more inclined to think of it as "writer's impatience", and to follow Arthur Koestler's dictum: "Soak; and wait.
Writers block to me is all the voices in your head trying to tune out the one voice that has something worthy say.
I don't like the expression "writer's block" because I think it presupposes that you have a problem with your plumbing. I really think it's the other way around.
Most things are beyond me," Block said. "I ain't found anything yet that I thoroughly understood,
Roadblocks are only temporary hurdles, if you know how to punch out a car...
When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what's going on in the plot, I go back and I read Pablo Neruda's poetry. I don't actually speak Spanish, so I read it translation. But I always go back to Neruda. I don't know why, but it calms me, calms my brain.
I don't believe in "writer's block". I try and deal with getting stuck by having more than one thing to work on at a time. And by knowing that even a hundred bad words that didn't exist before is forward progress.
When someone pushes you down you must get up and stand on your own two feet even if your scared to do it. Only you can set limits to your success.
Unlike some of my peers, I haven't really hit a writer's block. When I hit a block I just paint, which is an old crop rotation trick.
They told me I've got writer's cramp. So is that better than the block?
The best way in the world for breaking up a writer's block is to write a lot.
If the artist starts evaluating himself, it's an enormous block, isn't it?
The Four Stages of Writer's Block
W.B. Stage I: I want to write but I can't.
W.B. Stage II: I have to write but I can't.
W.B. Stage I: I don't want to write but I have to.
W.B. Stage I: I don't have time for writing ... and, honestly, I don't feel like writing.
Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block.
When you get bullied, you automatically think that you're the reason why you're getting bullied. The reality is, it's about them, not you ... I'm all about blocking people. I'm all about saying, 'You know what, I don't need this in my life.'
You can ridicule me. You can mock me. You can even make fun of me, but the one thing that you will never be able to do, is stop me." Wade Belknap Jr.
Punish the pushers and shovers by letting them get ahead.
What we sometimes consider a stumbling block is rather a rock we can step on.
Writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all
Wall your life, guard your heart and mind your mind! A life without a wall least blocks something! A mind without a wall accepts anything at all!
Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.
To stop a human being from doing something, you must find a way to make the person stop wanting to do it.
You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house.
Our stumbling blocks are transformed into building blocks.
Writer's block is real. It happens. Some days you sit down at the
old typewriter, put your fingers on the keys, and nothing pops
into your head. Blanko. Nada. El nothingissimo. What you do
when this happens is what separates you from the one-of-thesedays-
I'm-gonna-write-a-book crowd.
People will try to block you. Some will do it just for pure hostility. But most others are just afraid of themselves.