John Ford
Film Director
"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."
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Blunt
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Stephen King
Author
"Time apparently did nothing but blunt grief’s sharpest edge so that it hacked rather than sliced."
Anne Carson
Poet
"Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt - less and less sharp and biting into you."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"He is deformed, crooked, old and sere, Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere; Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind; Stigmatical in making, worse in mind."
Epictetus
Philosopher
"We should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill-managed."
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"I rap for listeners, blunt heads, fly ladies and prisoners"
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"Some gave me soft words and some blunt, some made excuses, some promises, some only lied. In the end words are just wind."
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"Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe."
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"All means prove but blunt instruments, if they have not behind them a living spirit."
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"I would rather die than betray his trust." "That's not saying much, seeing as you're already dead," Ron observed. "Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe," said Nearly Headless Nick in affronted tones."
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