"Certainly people have said a lot of deeply unfortunate and stupid things in Southern accents, but that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the accent itself."

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Source : "MoJo Podcast: Roy Blount Jr.’s Southern Fried Language". Interview with Laura Mcclure, www.motherjones.com. April 30, 2009.

Roy Blount, Jr.

#Stupid Quotes #Mean Quotes #People Quotes

“Now I worry. If people ended up liking me, did I do the job wrong? So I decided they didn't end up liking me - they ended up being able to deal with me.”

Source : "It's curtains for Okrent". Interview with Steve Kettmann, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2005.
“Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.”
“Shooting an improv-based film is incredibly liberating, exhilarating, and fun, but editing that kind of movie can be difficult for obvious continuity reasons.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“The temple in which the Lord Jesus delights most, is a broken and contrite heart, renewed by the Holy Spirit.”
“One must apply one's reason to everything here, learning to obey, to shut up, to help, to be good, to give in, and I don't know what else. I'm afraid I shall use up all my brains too quickly, and I haven't got so very many. Then I shall not have any left for when the war is over.”
“Someone who seeks to travel the path of Allah should begin with a sound repentance from all his sins.”
“If you serve others as fully as you can, what you do will be a source of inner joy.”
“I've just found the stories of the people I'm talking to much more interesting than my reactions to them.”

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