Bill Bryson Quotes
When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression.
Bill Bryson
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There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.
Famke Janssen
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I was just so excited to have a child! I held him up like he was Simba in 'The Lion King.' I wanted to sing 'The Circle of Life.'
Aaron Lazar
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
Carice van Houten
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In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.
Parker Posey
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Go to the doctor, get a checkup, and get Pap smears regularly. Cervical cancer is very preventable, and if you catch it early, there are tons of ways to treat it as well.
Mandy Moore
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I've done little things, including Botox, but it didn't feel right for me.
Mary Steenburgen
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We are really the victims of our own problems.
Jimmy Greaves
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Man must not be turned into a chicken or a rat as in the well-known experiments in which elation is induced electrically through electrodes inserted into the brain. Related to this is the question of the ever-increasing use of tranquilizers and anti-depressants, legal and illegal narcotics, and so forth.
Andrei Sakharov
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People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children's book. I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being conscious of who you're directing the story to is anathema to me, because, in my view, fiction is freedom and any restraints on that are intolerable.
Martin Amis
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Nature in her unfathomable designs had mixed us of clay and flame, of brain and mind, that the two things hang indubitably together and determine each other's being but how or why, no mortal may ever know.
William James
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When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression.
Bill Bryson
