"In the beginning, Atlanta was without form, and void; and it still is."

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Source : "Long Time Leaving". Book by Roy Blount Jr., www.nytimes.com. 2007.

Roy Blount, Jr.

#Atlanta Quotes #Void Quotes #Form Quotes

“I remember in the early days when we played six nights a week for a month and I was doing my long drum solo every night. My hands were covered in blisters.”
“People have always thought I was "on" something. After a while I began to think they knew something I didn't know! But I don't know, I just love living. And I love doing what I do.”

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“It bothers me to read the comments of leaders of the Hamas and others who hate America that their goal is to have more weaponry capable of delivering all types of weapons of mass destruction.”
“As a member of the New York Senate from 1966 to 1989, I voted 12 times to establish the death penalty in New York... I regret my votes in favor of the death penalty.”
“I'm Method trained. How is this character like me? What does she think of her mother? What does her mother think of her? It's like construction, and then, yes, you hope you're talented and that the universe aligns and captures the kind of laborer's work you've done and whatever else sprinkles down on you, and it's all caught on film or onstage.”
“If we do nothing, we still get to a post-carbon future, but it will be bleak. However, if we plan the transition, we can have a world that supports robust communities of healthy, creative people and ecosystems with millions of other species.”
“Then a sentimental passion of a vegetable fashion must excite your languid spleen, An attachment a la Plato for a bashful young potato, or a not-too-French French bean!”
“The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.”

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