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.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Love
  • You
  • Just

• 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?

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Funny
  • Responsible
  • Who Am I

• 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.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • People
  • America
  • Small

• Love should be an inspiration, not an obligation.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Love
  • Inspiration
  • Obligation

• 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.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Women
  • Children
  • Father

• I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Obsessed
  • Proportion
  • Perceived

• I'm part Cuban, so anything with a good beat like Rumberos de Cuba gets me going.

  

  Oona Chaplin
  • Good
  • Me
  • Cuba

• 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.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Great
  • Literature

• 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.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Brain
  • Student
  • Improving

• I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.

  

  R. Kelly
  • History
  • Day
  • Chicago

• 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.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Wind

• In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Life
  • Real
  • You

• 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.

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • May
  • Happy
  • Dream

• 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.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Up
  • Time
  • Different

• 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.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Religion
  • Lies
  • Human

• There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Light
  • inspirational
  • Mirror

• 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.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Book
  • House
  • Loved

• When it comes to helping make the country strong, we in Congress have an important role to play.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Important
  • Country
  • Strong

• I thought I'd be doing theater, really. That's all I had experience with growing up. I mean, I saw movies and television, but I don't think I really connected at a young age that that was acting, that that was part of the profession.

  

  Zeljko Ivanek
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Age

• When I was little, my older brother, Gary, was forced to read a book a week in fourth grade. The books he liked he threw on my bed when he was finished with them. This continued throughout my childhood and made me a reader for life.

  

  Keith Hernandez
  • Life
  • Book
  • Brother

• I honestly, purposely have not gone to therapy because I know some crazy stuff's going to be dragged up and, you know, I'll be like, 'Wait, what?'

  

  Jimmy Fallon
  • Up
  • Crazy

• You are right, but the weakness does not come from the millions of Muslims in the world. They do not mind being radical, they have no fear to speak out and to protest and to jihad.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • World
  • Mind
  • Fear

• I felt very special in Paris, more special than I felt in London. I love London for different reasons. I've always been close to London, being English. But somehow, there's something special about living as an Englishwoman in Paris.

  

  Charlotte Rampling
  • Different
  • English
  • Paris

• I hate my arms. If I wear a nice dress, I can't go strapless or sleeveless because my arms just aren't feminine.

  

  Bryony Shaw
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