Bryony Shaw Quotes

I was very self-conscious about my body from a young age. At school, I played football and netball and did ballet as well so was very athletic. I wasn't curvaceous; I had muscles on my arms and shoulders. Often I felt like hiding them rather than showing them off, as I felt they were masculine.

Bryony Shaw

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• I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.

  

  Vikas Swarup
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  • Delhi
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• If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Year

• I focus on the elements of a movie that are meant to invisibly affect me as a viewer. The edges. As an author, I'm aware of how the subconscious things can pluck at a reader's emotions, and I love it when filmmakers do the same.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
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• Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Men
  • Power
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• We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Death
  • Winning
  • Dying

• Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Death

• I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.

  

  Vijay
  • People
  • Writing
  • Stop

• People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Music
  • Way

• I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Way

• I'm bringing what I've always wanted: film quality work on television. That's the way it should be.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Work
  • Quality
  • Television

• I think there are more female characters in videogames now but I also think that's because videogames in general are more diverse now.

  

  Tara Strong
  • Think
  • More
  • Now

• Whatever a person's politics, lawyers have to understand that we are, for most people, the gateway for them to have access to the third branch of government.

  

  Patricia Millett
  • People
  • Government
  • Politics

• The kind of person who's going to stand on the red carpet and love the attention and have the big grin - I'm just not like that. I want to get in there, do what I've got to do, and get home to my kids.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Love
  • Home
  • Kids

• There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Trying
  • You
  • Aesthetic

• Of course there are people who think of 'heaven' as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an afterlife to make the thought of dying less awful. No doubt that's a problem as old as the human race.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • People
  • Dream
  • Problem

• Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • Family
  • Love
  • Values

• I really like the old stuff that I cut my musical teeth on, and I loved it when the industry was just like that, without really a genre. Today, country radio's more aimed at a demographic than a genre. It just softens everything.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Country
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• There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who had some influence on me, but I couldn't tell you what it was.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Remember
  • Me
  • Influence

• I always appreciated the magnitude of my mother's imagination. She always saw beauty in what was broken, and she'd preserve it.

  

  Blake Lively
  • She
  • Mother
  • Imagination

• The CIA teamed up with Army, Air Force and Naval Intelligence to run one of the most nefarious, classified, enhanced interrogation programs of the Cold War. The work took place inside a clandestine facility in the American zone of occupied Germany, called Camp King.

  

  Annie Jacobsen
  • Up
  • Work
  • American

• What's the use of a high school education if you can't recall it when needed later on?

  

  Hal Clement
  • School
  • High
  • Education

• We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.

  

  George Saunders
  • Age
  • Die
  • Fail

• I don't think music is done by any means. I would love to do it again but it's finding the right thing.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Music
  • Thinking
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• I was very self-conscious about my body from a young age. At school, I played football and netball and did ballet as well so was very athletic. I wasn't curvaceous; I had muscles on my arms and shoulders. Often I felt like hiding them rather than showing them off, as I felt they were masculine.

  

  Bryony Shaw
  • School
  • Age
  • Football