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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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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Karate aims to build character, improve human behavior, and cultivate modesty; it does not, however, guarantee it.
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Ultimately, even if you follow the advice of a mentor or board member, it's still your fault if they were wrong!
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Some people are gonna hate anything; they're gonna hate when anybody tries to go or do anything, and that's usually the people who don't ever create anything themselves.
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I want to sing for people. I want them to have the music. It's a nice feeling.
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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.