Bill Bryson Quotes
Very little of what America does is actually bad, and I don't think it ever does anything anywhere that is intentionally bad. I mean, sometimes we make mistakes and bad judgments and kind of back the wrong regimes and things, but by and large what America does is really good.
Quotes to Explore
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It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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I'm a wuss - a complete wuss!
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I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.
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Writing is not like acting, where you can pull these little stunts that create a particular effect. Words are all it is about, and the way you use words has to be individual and particular to you.
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My family are huge 'Star Wars' fans.
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I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.
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I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails.
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EO 11110 did not order the printing of Silver Certificates. It ordered the amendment of a previous executive order so that the United States Code would authorize or 'empower' the Secretary of the Treasury to issue Silver Certificates if the occasion should arise.
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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
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Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.
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My whole life is a theater piece.
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When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.
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To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
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Equality for women is progress for all.
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I hear a little firecracker go off when you come up with a good rhyme.
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Some people like having eyes upon them and I don't.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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I was just totally taken by Michael Jackson when I was a little kid, like everyone else.
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In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.
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I'm a very spontaneous person. If someone aggravates me, I'm going to go after them. I wake up every morning, and I say, 'What bad guys should I go after today?'
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If you don't get a good night's sleep, the events of the day are not properly encoded in memory.
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It felt smooth coming off my hands. I felt the laces around the ball. It was just all good.
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Very little of what America does is actually bad, and I don't think it ever does anything anywhere that is intentionally bad. I mean, sometimes we make mistakes and bad judgments and kind of back the wrong regimes and things, but by and large what America does is really good.
