Bryony Shaw Quotes
I hate my arms. If I wear a nice dress, I can't go strapless or sleeveless because my arms just aren't feminine.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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What am I responsible for? Who am I responsible to? Everybody? How come when Archie Bunker nailed everybody, it was funny - but when I do it, it's not?
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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Love should be an inspiration, not an obligation.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.
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I'm part Cuban, so anything with a good beat like Rumberos de Cuba gets me going.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.
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I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
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I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.
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When I'm at home, I just run all the time, you know; I get up, and I go pretty much four days a week outdoors. I go in the canyons around L.A., Malibu - just around L.A. there's a lot of different spots.
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The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.
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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
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I was 8 years old when I went across the street from my house to a fair, and they always had a used book sale. For a quarter I bought a book called 'Come On Seabiscuit.' I loved that book. It stayed with me all those years.
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When it comes to helping make the country strong, we in Congress have an important role to play.
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It is the asymmetry of the bonus system that got us here. No incentives without disincentives: capitalism is about rewards and punishments, not just rewards.
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For if I thought my judgment were of years, I should commit thee surely with thy peers, And tell how far thou didst our Lily outshine, Or sporting Kyd, or Marlow's mighty line. And though thou hadst small Latin and less Greek, From thence to honour thee, I will not seek For names…
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I hate going to bed. I read scripts, clean, listen to the radio - I've fallen asleep to 'This American Life' more times than I can count!
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I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.
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I hate my arms. If I wear a nice dress, I can't go strapless or sleeveless because my arms just aren't feminine.
