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Bill Bryson Quotes

I want things to be better all the time. And I tend to get angry about that. Books are an opportunity to vent.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: December 8, 1951

Topics

Opportunity Time Angry Better Want

To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that.

Me Short Want Write Over Beginnings

I've been writing joke songs since I was a kid and it served me well at S.N.L. I can write those in my sleep. In fact, I have.

Sleep Me Writing I Can Write Kid

I never had a clique. If I throw a party, the only thing connecting people is me. Maybe I just don't believe in fear. I bulldoze right in.

Fear People Me Believe Party Never

All I wanted to do was come into my own and find out my career path and what I wanted to do with my life - but, at the same time, showing respect to my father and mother and make them proud as well.

Life Father Mother Path Time Proud

Because of streaming, serialized television has become less of a dirty word when you're pitching shows. I had to fight for that for so long as someone who's always gravitated towards ongoing story lines with characters that evolved and changed and storylines that continued over longer arcs.

Fight Story Someone Long You Dirty

Boring people are a reflection of boring people.

Reflection People Boring

I've always been interested in a certain kind of sophistication in children's literature. I loved Roald Dahl; I loved the underlying nastiness of some of his - darkness of his tales.

Children Darkness Loved Literature

I'm not really premeditative in any way at all. I come up with an idea, hopefully for a film, and then I'm lucky enough to do the film.

Christopher Guest

Enough Way Lucky Up Film Come

Perhaps I shouldn't have been influenced by the idea that my name could be spread across the entire world.

Christian Lacroix

World Name Spread Been Idea Could

I definitely wasn't the kid playing sports. I was super different.

Sports Kid Playing Different Super

My mother wouldn't let me play football because she was afraid I would get hurt, so I played flag football.

Mother Football Me Hurt Play She

Between a fellow who is stupid and honest and one who is smart and crooked, I will take the first. I won't get much out of him, but with that other guy I can't keep what I've got.

Lewis B. Hershey

Smart Stupid Will First Him Out

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