logo

Quotes About Blocking

Rehearsing is more about blocking in the case of movies, I think, and blocking, of course, is very important to the beauty of a scene.
~ Rod Lurie
Hitting the sled is something a lineman can do to get ready for the season. A running back can't practice, carrying the ball by himself but a lineman can work on his blocking.
~ Mike Webster
I do extensive storyboards so people can get a sense of what we're doing, and what the attitude and tone is. I work a lot with the actors. I like to go to sets or locations with them before shooting so that they know what they'll be doing on the day. I have found actors really do like to know about blocking, etc., before the shoot day comes.
~ David Nutter
I can be a guy the guys can rely on, an anchor in the paint, whether it's blocking shots or being on that help side.
~ Brook Lopez
Republicans believed that their job was not governing but blocking any idea coming from President Obama and the Democrats, and wiping out Democrats in the 2012 election.
~ Juan Williams
I think at some point during the course of the game, I will have an impact - whether it's blocking or whether it's catching the football.
~ Terrell Owens
blocking out the sunlight increases the ability of the lawyers to play with the shadows.
~ Bill James
Memory is subject to a filtering process that we don't always recognize and can't always control. We remember what we can bear and we block what we cannot.
~ Sue Grafton
I don't story board. I do something else, which is, I block it. We then train to the blocking. In other words, when everybody's training, they're actually training a lot of the moves that we are definitely going to use, and then, I do a lot of photography of that, and that becomes where the cameras go.
~ Michael Mann
There's no more skilled position in football than the offensive line.
~ Mark Schlereth
The most dangerous fundamentalists aren't just waging war in Iraq; they're attacking evolution, blocking medical research and ignoring the environment.
~ Jill Greenberg
You start blocking out things, and that's a really important part of taking a picture is the ability to isolate what you're - what you're concentrating on.
~ Sally Mann
Low kicks, you need to throw at least 20 to finish the guy, and he has 20 chances to block you, and you can break your leg.
~ Mirko Cro Cop
When a thread requests a lock that is already held by another thread, the requesting thread blocks. But because intrinsic locks are reentrant, if a thread tries to acquire a lock that it already holds, the request succeeds. Reentrancy means that locks are acquired on a per-thread rather than per-invocation basis.
~ Brian Goetz
A quivering sensation of power, of flame. Othman sucked the impression into his brain, savoured it. Daniel must not pick this up. Not yet. It was simple to exude a blocking stream, which, invisibly, wrapped as a caul around Daniel's senses. He was so young, so untrained. He could not fight it. Under Othman's influence, he abandoned the spirtual aspects of what he was doing and gave himself to lust.
~ Storm Constantine
These 'offer-block-accept' games have a use quite apart from actor training. People with dull lives often think that their lives are dull by chance. In reality everyone chooses more or less what kind of events will happen to them by their conscious patterns of blocking and yielding.
~ Keith Johnstone
When you're shooting a TV show, sometimes it's more about, like, the blocking: it's usually - it's really fast. 'Walk here, walk here, walk and talk here.'
~ David Castaneda
I operate a pretty strict muting and blocking policy on Twitter.
~ Lauren Mayberry
If you look at one of the basic underlying tenets of liberty, it's freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom to access of information. If we start sequestering that and blocking it off, you're going to have pockets around the world that are going to become more and more isolated.
~ Ted Yoho
I can say our strategy has always been and will continue to be getting our content in front of as many consumers around the globe as we can... AT&T has been an advocate of the tenets of no blocking, no discrimination, no paid prioritization.
~ Jeff Bewkes
We've always had the sensibility that you work on the set, and you structure it, much like a play, where once you've got the lines down and blocking right, you freeze it, and then you go out and do what you're doing night after night. You want to structure something that has form and that builds the right dynamic from start to finish.
~ Lindsey Buckingham
Sometimes it's just rejecting stereotypes, sometimes it's creating work. Sometimes it's just blocking out the noise.
~ Morgan Parker
I intentionally aided them by being there and blocking an avenue of escape for the victims.
~ Robert Iler
Tackling is more natural than blocking. If a man is running down the street with everything you own, you won't let him get away. That's tackling.
~ Unknown