Bill Bryson Quotes
I'm not funny in person. I mean I'm really not. I'm one of those people who always screw up anecdotes.
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In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.
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The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
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Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world's diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.
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I mean, sometimes when you do a show or a campaign with a designer, you get along with them really well and you become friends. And then, sometimes, people are just a bit... weird.
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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The most profound change that genetics brings about might not be scientific at all. It might be mental and even spiritual enrichment: a more expansive sense of who we humans are, existentially, and where we came from, and how we fit with other life on earth.
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There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
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I don't find anything upsetting or gross or degrading about fighting with a mental illness: Bipolar or Schizophrenia.
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The beauty of a Moroccan riad is undeniable, but even the most die-hard fan may find herself growing a little weary of what can come to feel like a one-size-fits-all aesthetic: tilework, white Berber rugs, woolen tribal throw pillows in reds and ochers, cut-metal lanterns.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.
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Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.
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I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look down and go, 'Ohhhh my God.' I try to get into that place every time I write a scene like that. And definitely when I write the action scenes, I get overheated and my heart goes really fast. I get very involved.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
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There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.
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People don't know how good cauliflower is, because they always have this image of cauliflower cheese - awful, sticky, creamy and rich.
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I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.
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I didn't think of football growing up. This wasn't my career, something I chose. It was something I was picked in.
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Boring people are a reflection of boring people.
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As a director, you're looking for ways to tell the story with the whole image and not primarily dialogue.
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I am innocent of the blood of this just person; see ye to it.
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I'm not funny in person. I mean I'm really not. I'm one of those people who always screw up anecdotes.
