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.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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I'm bringing what I've always wanted: film quality work on television. That's the way it should be.
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I think there are more female characters in videogames now but I also think that's because videogames in general are more diverse now.
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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.
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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.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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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.
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A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good.
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I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It's one of the reasons I dropped out of school.
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You've got to understand what makes the character human.
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It just seems to me that there's no particular reason comedy albums should be dead. There's a lot to laugh at. We have very funny people, still.
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I went from unknown to having no anonymity.
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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.
