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I don't mind being criticised, but hearing yourself described as the next James Blunt - that hurts.
Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.
I think Emily Blunt is definitely our finest young female English export. She has an uncanny grace.
I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.
I'm a blunt person, not mean-spirited. I come from a place of love, but I'm interested in being real.
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.
I'm gonna be blunt and plain, if one ever looks at me like that I'm gonna kill him and tell God he died.
I have seen many festival films and I will be blunt, I don't think 'Madras Cafe' was ready for festivals.
I would love to be the lead in an action movie. I would love to be like Emily Blunt in 'Edge of Tomorrow.'
If people are shooting at you, it's human nature to be afraid. I was afraid. I'll be quite blunt about that.
I think executive orders with Donald Trump would be a very blunt instrument with respect to the Constitution.
I don't use Twitter to share my thoughts - I use it to make statements that are quite blunt and hopefully fun.
That's always fun to play: the person who can be truthful and blunt, and people take it because that's who she is.
Always do things the least interesting way, the most blunt way, and you make a better movie. This is my experience.
You don't want to bash viewers over the head with a blunt message or lecture them - they'd soon get bored with that.
Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups.
Chemotherapy is just medieval. It's such a blunt instrument. We're going to look back on it like we do the dark ages.
People say I'm tough and too blunt. I'm a product of my organization. MSF is a blunt, tough, no-nonsense organization.
Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt - less and less sharp and biting into you.
That is the nature of the British psyche. It's very blunt, plain, very linear. It's pragmatic: it records life as it is.
Some gave me soft words and some blunt, some made excuses, some promises, some only lied. In the end words are just wind.
I've always been ballsy. My dad is a blunt northerner, and maybe I've got a bit of that in me. I just kind of steam ahead.
Everyone appreciates me for my honesty. Why shouldn't I speak my mind? I will not say I am blunt. I don't speak about others.
To be quite blunt, I make pictures for money, to pay the rent.There are some great artists in the business. I am not one of them.
My incentive in starting Vanguard, I'm very blunt about this, it was my means of preserving my career. That's a very selfish thing.
In my films, I either want the music to be very subtle and very buried or just put it right out in front and be super blunt with it.
During the 2008 campaign, Hillary Clinton ran a blunt television ad asking whether Barack Obama could handle a foreign policy crisis.
Let me be blunt, employers do have to raise wages if they can't attract enough employees. That's the free market, that's how it works.
Even if Trump means well, his schemes tend to be blunt, selfish, and short-sighted rather than nuanced, empathetic, and thought through.
A boycott is, inherently, a blunt instrument. It is an imperfect weapon, a carpet bomb, when all involved would prefer a surgical strike.
Rosencrantz: Shouldn't we be doing something--constructive? Guildenstern: What did you have in mind? ... A short, blunt human pyramid...?
I am blunt sometimes; I am diplomatic sometimes; I am all things in between. Abrasive, you know, I guess it's in the eye of the beholder.
I've never been uncomfortable sharing stuff. It's almost the opposite. I'll say the most blunt, brutally honest thing about any situation.
I don't get along with many people, especially in studios. I'm quite blunt and I know what I want - and songwriters are very sensitive people.
I'm still very blunt: If you want to be a writer, get a day job. The fact that I have actually been able to make a living at it is astonishing.
Over the years, I've had to learn how to deal with people who refuse to take me seriously. That's where I learnt the blunt side of my character.
Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.
About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.
It's never really been my intention; I've never gone out of my way to be relatable to anyone. I just say what I want, and I'm pretty blunt about things.
I have had a number of less-than-enviable moments in my life when dealing with other people. I won't attempt to blunt that by saying I am not the only one.
I guess I'm one of those girls who can be too honest about things for my own good, but I expect it back. I expect people to be honest and blunt with me, too.
Sometimes I'm overly blunt. I don't like to mince words. I like to get things done. That's the only difference between Chris Christie and I - he's a little shy.
The bilateral relationship is unshakable, but playing politics with that relationship could blunt Secretary Kerry's enthusiasm for being Israel's primary defender.
To be blunt, we need to remove the administrative barriers preventing legitimate research into medical marijuana, which is why I've decided to roll out the MEDS Act.
If you're analytical, you have to be blunt. That's by definition. You can't analyze something and not be blunt about it. What would you rather hear if not the truth?
He is deformed, crooked, old and sere, Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere; Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind; Stigmatical in making, worse in mind.
I tend to be reasonably blunt, maybe a little bit too much. But I just- I always respected people that tell the truth. And I've always wanted people to tell me the truth.
Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
With 'Lady Lady' I wanted to tell a story bluntly, and that's what happened. The goal is to get Erykah Badu-ish with it because she super bares her soul and she's so blunt.
I found early on in teaching, if you're too blunt an instrument, the students discredit you and think you're just being mean. They're not interested in what you have to say.