Bill Bryson Quotes
There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
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I've always been interested in violence, even as a teenager. I loved 'Helter Skelter' and books like that.
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My own writing has perhaps more of an American flavor than a British one, but that's because the stories I've so far written have needed it. 'Empire State,' 'Seven Wonders' and 'The Age Atomic' are all very place-centric, where the setting itself is almost a character. But there is a universality to story that isn't just limited to science fiction.
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A guy running, you know, fifteen, twenty stallions that are two years of age, never been touched by a human before, and you've got to start castrating them, that's pretty intimidating.
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I don't think people should do things because you know, 'I am turning this age, I must go have a husband.' If you find somebody and it works out then have kids, it's very nice. But if you don't, you don't.
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Politics is the one field you don't age out of.
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Even during the golden age of fashion, you had haute couture houses where the designers didn't have money.
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Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.
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My natural hair is jet black. I used to have it down to my bum. And I went through a phase of being obsessed with fake tan. So from the age of 14 to 16, I looked like an Apache Indian!
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I've been sailing from the age of 2, and apparently, when I was 4, I told my dad, 'I know how to do this; you don't have to come with me anymore.'
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I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing plays at school was a joyous release.
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Work is transformative. It gives you a greater chance of a greater income. You can affect your life while you're of working age, so you have scope and opportunity. Pensioners do not.
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Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.
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I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.
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I would definitely like to start working with more people over age 7.
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Age doesn't mean anything. Age doesn't mean I can't work as hard. Age doesn't mean I can't do as well as everyone else. It's just a factor. It's just there.
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I've loved musical theater ever since I was a kid. My mother's a pianist, and my grandfather was an amateur theater director and stand-up comic. And I was an only child. And I loved attention. So from an early age, my family was teaching old musical songs.
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You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.
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When a garment is in sync with your body and its proportions, it looks and feels amazing, and in France that is something that all women know from a young age.
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We do live in this age of new media.
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I feel like I'm a natural-born playwright, but the prose thing has always mystified me. How to keep it going? How do people do it, for years and years?
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I love the business of business; I love the risk raking.
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I hate patriotism... I can't stand it. It's a round world last time I checked.
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There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
