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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Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.
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Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you.
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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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I'll always love rap, no matter what's going on.
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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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I don't understand the iPhone. I just don't get it. Don't ya'll have to write serious emails throughout the day? How can you possibly manage detailed missives on a phone with no keys?
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Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach thy hand, For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon on thy lake of Galilee.
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When I'm writing, I try not to think things like, 'Gosh, I have to finish writing this book.' Books are very long and it's easy to get discouraged. Instead I think to myself, 'Wow, I have this great story idea, and today I'm going to write two pages of it. That's all - just two pages.'
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It's the moms of this nation - single, married, widowed - who really hold this country together. We're the mothers, we're the wives, we're the grandmothers, we're the big sisters, we're the little sisters, we're the daughters. You know it's true, don't you? You're the ones who always have to do a little more.
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I still feel like I'm trying to make it. It's hard to shed the struggling actor thing.
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Above all, what is oddest to the outsider is that Aborigines just aren't there.
