Bill Bryson Quotes
I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed.
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I love shopping, but I can't go out. I love going to restaurants and eating out with friends.
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I have worked for three decades as a staunch advocate of building a 'big tent' party that includes both pro-choice and pro-life Republicans.
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I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
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As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.
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Well, my first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I always spoke both languages at home. I'm very thankful that I was brought up in a bilingual house.
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Death always seems to be around me.
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I'm happy in Lululemon, with a glass of red wine, watching HGTV.
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If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that's such a rare gift. It's underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics.
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There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
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It's nice to look out and see your family supporting you.
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I couldn't hold it together today. George Clooney asked me if I was OK, and I practically collapsed. I couldn't stop crying, I had to go off sobbing like an idiot.
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Work is what saves you.
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I know that the last thing a book wants is to just sit around unread, serving as an element of interior decorating. So when I have people over, all they have to do is glance at my books, and I implore them to take a few home with them. If I am really ambitious, I pack books into boxes and donate them to prisons.
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I didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.
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I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.
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I'm doing what I wanted to do since I was a young girl. I pinch myself every day to make sure it's true.
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I'm a very boring person.
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All my heroes wore coats and ties to work. What happened to men wearing hats? Maybe I should bring back hats.
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I think my mother hated me.
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The great genius does not let his work be determined by the concrete finite conditions that surround him, whilst it is from these that the work of the statesman takes its direction and its termination. … It is the genius in reality and not the other who is the creator of history, for it is only the genius who is outside and unconditioned by history.
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That's the kind of TV I like to watch, where you just don't know what's going to happen.
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Man is a dream about a shadow. But when some splendour falls upon him from God, a glory comes to him and his life is sweet.
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Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had.
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I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed.
