Bill Bryson Quotes

I've been wanting to do a book about baseball for the longest time, and nobody will let me do it. It's the one thing from America I really miss.

Bill Bryson

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• Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

  

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• My maternal grandmother, Penelope, was a very big figure in my life. She was a child of the Raj, born in India, a debutante who hobnobbed with royals, then married a Canadian, Bill Aitken, who became MP for Bury St Edmunds.

  

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• San Francisco, coolest place ever.

  

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• I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.

  

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• You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.

  

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• No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.

  

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• A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

  

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• I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.

  

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• Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.

  

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• I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.

  

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• I love dogs. I have a Golden Doodle and an Alaskan Klee Kai.

  

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• I'm concerned about my daughter because she will not believe in Santa Claus. No matter what I say to her, she just doesn't buy it, and she's 2. I refuse to give it up. I say, 'There is a Santa Claus,' and she says, 'Okay, Mommy. In pretend world, right?' She really doesn't believe.

  

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• But with two boys and a new puppy, we don't get out much. We're usually home doing stuff together as a family, like watching 'Modern Family.'

  

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• If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.

  

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• Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.

  

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• I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.

  

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• I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.

  

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• Whether you're a programmer or a seamstress, it's all about new techniques, simplifying old techniques, and consolidating steps. Making things go faster - but not worse.

  

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• We all feel at some point of our lives that we're different, that we don't fit in.

  

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• How slender is the accommodation which nature has provided for man.

  

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• There definitely comes a time where a fresh pair of eyes and fresh leadership would be good, and the Conservative Party has got some great people coming up - the Theresa Mays, and the George Osbornes, and the Boris Johnsons.

  

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• People's live are expressed in little details....The soap in the bathroom, the flowers in the garden, the books on the bedside table are all strong symbols of a life in progress. You look at these details and a world unfolds - here are their books, the paintings they cherish, the music that soothes their souls.

  

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• I've been wanting to do a book about baseball for the longest time, and nobody will let me do it. It's the one thing from America I really miss.

  

  Bill Bryson
  • Time
  • Book
  • America