Bill Bryson Quotes
Why, it's a perfect little city. If you have never been to Durham, go there at once. Take my car. It's wonderful.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style.
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I was born in New York City. But my family moved when I was still an infant. Except for a year and half when we lived in Youngstown, Ohio, I grew up in small towns in Pennsylvania. I graduated from high school in Farrell, Pennsylvania.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.
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One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.
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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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My cross earrings are a mini statement; I wear them every day! My whole dream is to be iconic, and the way you dress yourself is so important.
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Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
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If you've got cockles, those nickel-size, heart-shaped mollusks, and you want to get fancy, steam them, then toss the meat in finely ground cornmeal.
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Success is so bad for everybody, period. Especially a certain kind of success, when people practically give up their identity. They forget who they are, how they are.
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The hip hop industry is most likely owned by gays. I happen to think there's a gay mafia in hip hop. Not rappers - the editorial presidents of magazines, the PDs at radio stations, the people who give you awards at award shows.
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For anyone who's been in care, successfully coming through the system is nothing to with money or success; it's the ability to feel love and be loved in return.
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Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
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I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I Love Lucy or the Carol Burnett Show.
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If you go to pilot then you are probably going to go to series. That's my feeling about it.
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I just love making people laugh.
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Paris certainly needs to promote itself. Although still the most visited city in the world, it has fallen behind London and Berlin in terms of cool.
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Everything is perfect. Everything is fine. The rules of life are made up. The rules only exist in your mind. Of course there may be courtesies And closures and laws to abide, But the zeal with which you play Relies on where YOU draw the line
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Why, it's a perfect little city. If you have never been to Durham, go there at once. Take my car. It's wonderful.
