You are preparing yourself for a scene, and the most important thing is to remain emotionally available and remain in the moment with your scene partner. You don’t want to let your own self-consciousness block the flow of creativity that’s coming out so that you can act and react, and play what the scene is all about.
I know I can block shots and I’ve got to do it. That’s part of my job as a big.
We tend to block off many of our senses when we’re staring at a screen. Nature time can literally bring us to our senses.
Duct tape is like that. It’s a building block. You can make a rope out of it, you can make a cloth out of it. And because it sticks to stuff it’s even more powerful. It’s like an uber-material because of the versatility of a sticky fiber.
The goal isn’t, and shouldn’t be, to block Hillary Clinton. The goal is to make sure a potential President Clinton is beholden to a better Congress and a better Democratic Party.
Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.
The rain-cum-solar energy centre functioning in Chennai is a source of credible public information on rainwater harvesting and solar energy use. Such centres need to be replicated in all our cities, towns and block headquarters.
I met a Shanghai photographer who finds these old streets and matches the French names to what they are today. I was able to find my grandfather’s block, and just walking the same streets and finding his house was deeply moving. I finally felt connected to China.
Gay marriage is a divisive issue in France, where Fillon has vowed to block adoption by same-sex couples. The battle against Islamism also remains a rallying cry; Fillon’s campaign manifesto is called ‘Conquering Islamic Totalitarianism’.
In 25 years of writing novels, I’ve never had anything that felt like writer’s block.
I’d like to get around 7-7, be as tall as Manute Bol, and someday block his shot.
My parents were out of town and sent me to stay at my grandma’s house. That’s where I learned how to make pancakes. I served them to all the old ladies who lived on her block. After the meal, they each left a $5 bill next to their plates. I thought, ‘Hey, I’m onto something here.’
If you’re having problems with someone on the Internet, simply block the person and move on. And if you do want to meet people from online, make sure you do your research to make sure you’re talking to the person you want to be talking to.
Mother always said that even when I was 3, I used to get the 6- and 7-year-old kids on the block and punch them and say, ‘Listen to me.’
When I get onto the pitch, I block out everything around it, and I really focus on the pitch.
We’ve seen filibusters to block judicial nominations, jobs bills, political transparency, ending Big Oil subsidies – you name it, there’s been a filibuster.
Prose is like this big block – you write big paragraphs. I feel that when I’m reading and writing, that a prose book is kind of monolithic. But a song is more like a feather or something.
I have learnt three things from Barry John which are applicable to life, too: Don’t expect anything from another actor, one shouldn’t judge, and one shouldn’t block things.
On my block, we grew up like family. Summer times, man, psshh, we in the back in the alley or in the front on the block. Somebody has some music playing, and nine times out of ten, it’s soul music. We got whatever we drinking that day, we got some food, we probably even grilling. It’s just a good time.
Before a race, I block out what’s going on in the stadium. It’s different for everyone. But for me, I’ve always been able to block it out. For a sprint race, it’s important not to get distracted.
One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don’t always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it’s just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.
Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block.
With iPhones, nobody has an excuse for writer’s block. If you’re at Whole Foods getting your green tea extract and you have a melody, you just drop it into your voice memo and save it for later.
Great ideas are very much ‘of the moment,’ and endlessly mulling them over just takes up too much of your brain space and might block your next great idea. Act on it, give it away, or move on.
When I was fighting communism, there was rapid development of satellite television and cell phones, and communism, to survive, would have to block all these information devices.
What you want to do in a film is encapsulate the characters and the stories into one focused, coherent two-hour time block, and that’s sometimes hard to do especially when you have a group as varied and distinctive as the ‘X-Men’ are.
Benchmark has threatened to block investments that could bolster Uber’s competitive position in global markets by bargaining over board seats and its own control.
I never allowed writer’s block to be a reality. I framed it up for myself early on. I said, ‘OK, if I’m not writing, the well is just filling up. I’m going to be patient with this.’
Growing up in Quebec, we were always playing sports. Your first athletic competition was against the kids living on your block.
Well, there’s one guy, when he runs the ball his head’s really, really still – doesn’t move whatsoever but then when it’s a pass he’s always, like how he’s looking is like his head is almost going back and forth and back and forth because he needs to know who to block.
Block by block, street by street, our city has the resources, the activism, and the ideas to meet these challenges if we act boldly and reshape what’s possible. After all, Boston was founded on a revolutionary promise: that things don’t have to be as they always have been.
For every IP block, DRM, and who-knows-what security feature Hollywood spends thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours on, some piracy kid will undo it for free and within a couple of minutes.
The ‘block’ in ‘Attack the Block’ is not just a physical thing. It’s people; it’s families.
At the end of the day, social distancing’s hard when you’re in a huddle and when you’re trying to block guys.
When it’s time to play, I’m going to come play. I’m going to play the right way. I’m going to try to help my team in all directions, blocking and catching. If I don’t have the ball in my hand, I’m going to protect, block down the field. I’m going to do whatever it takes to win.
When you play guard, you’re not going to block a lot of shots. Inside, you’re going to block shots.
Back in the Eighties, I’d buy the biggest Benetton jumper I could find and would wear it long-sleeved, hanging off my shoulders, with a varsity jacket and a baseball cap on back to front with a quiff. I was the smallest boy in my class, and I looked like a reject from New Kids On The Block. Terrible.
I think I was the only kid on the block who knew about furniture scale by the time I was 8.
I got so tired of everybody talking about ‘Stranger Things,’ I think I developed a mental block against watching it.
