Bill Bryson Quotes
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Fashion is something which is non-lasting; it's ephemeral.
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There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something.
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
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Opponents of civil liberties contend the NSA data collection has made our country more safe, but even the most vocal defenders of the program have failed to identify a single thwarted plot.
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I feel that I communicate best when I am not deliberately being linear. Along this same line, I feel some of the best sermons I've ever heard were in the theatre rather than the pulpit - as, for example, in the Theatre of the Absurd.
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The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
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'Clash Of The Titans' is one of the biggest movies I've done; it was certainly the most effects I've worked with.
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I was a dancer, so for me, if I don't work out for a week or move my body in some sense, I feel weird.
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I'll always welcome some extra shifts and some extra ice time, and it's my job to be as prepared as possible to play those minutes.
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MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic.
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I do take pride in saying that in spite of being in public life for so long, there is not a single case against me, not even for wrongly parking a scooter or driving on the wrong side.
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No, I'm not coaching. It's a huge responsibility to coach somebody.
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I would always want printed books.
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Our foreign-exchange reserves when I took over were no more than a billion dollars; that is, roughly equal to two weeks' imports.
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It was the era of Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson; they all had a certain look.
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It really is a blessing when two people who are so full of dignity and kindness and really live to make the world a better place get together.
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The way is the beginning of all beings and the measure of right and wrong.
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What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage.
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I grew up on the Bones Brigade as well. The very first skateboard video I saw was the Bones Brigade Video Show and I'd always valued the Bones Brigade and Powell Peralta as the ultimate in skateboarding.
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Above all, what is oddest to the outsider is that Aborigines just aren't there.