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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My wife Kris and I enjoy keeping an active lifestyle, so it's hard to imagine what it would be like if breathing problems kept me from participating in the activities I love to do. But that's exactly what happens to many people who develop COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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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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My mother was the president of the PTA at every school I attended.
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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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Heart disease is no laughing matter. After my father suffered a massive heart attack, I realized just how serious heart disease can be.
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The U.S. never lost a battle against North Vietnam, but it lost the war.
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I needed a place to put the dogs. The prisoners ruined the jail, so I put the prisoners in the tents and I had a nice place to put the dogs. We treat the cats nice too, and horses. I have the inmates take care of the animals. It's therapy too, you see.
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Producers and studios know what sells. It's nice to be one of the guys that can help sell a movie by taking his shirt off.
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I read 'Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them,' and I found frightening pieces that related to... my own life.
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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.
