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Bill Bryson Quotes

A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen is not a very appealing world.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

World You Without Screen Where Read

Not even the brightest future can make up for the fact that no roads lead back to what came before - to the innocence of childhood or the first time we fell in love.

Love Future Time Roads Childhood

The downside to making movies at a gallop like we did with 'Wish You Were Here' is that we're shooting four or five scenes in a day, and it's very exhilarating, but you worry at the end of the day that you missed some details because you were moving too quick, and you just gotta trust and be ready straightaway.

Trust Day Moving End Details Worry

ISIL, AQ, now have the ability to literally reach into our homeland through social media, through the Internet, to recruit and inspire. It makes for a more complicated homeland security environment. And so it requires a whole of government approach, not just military and law enforcement, homeland security, aviation security, and the like.

Social Media Government Law Inspire

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

Religion Grow Political Become Dogma

I have no regrets about not having children. I still wait for the pang of guilt, but I have none. I tune into the television show 'Nanny 911' occasionally which reminds me how much patience and love it take to be a good parent.

Love Good Patience Children Me Wait

The only magazines I read are car magazines.

Car Only Read Magazines

It was 1988, I believe, that I met Grit. We were both appearing in a Canadian Folk Festival and as we sat backstage he handed me his guitar. I played it, loved it, and then found out that he'd made it himself.

Me Believe Guitar Loved Grit Out

If you start very far to the left, it's harder to get to the middle.

Start You Left Get Middle Far

My first album was hip-hop influenced, and my second was more of a singer-songwriter album.

Hip-Hop More First Second Album

The problem is that music is selfish in that you need to make it for yourself, so that you can give it away, and those two things don't jive. I needed to find the right reason to play that had the magic and mystery and excitement that made me want to play in the first place.

Music Yourself Me Selfish Problem

It's funny: I look at songs, and I guess they each tell a story, and the different songs talk about different things. But they're unified by the rhythm underneath and the way that we decided to arrange and play them.

Funny Story Look Play Way Talk

Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar.

Douglas Coupland

Day Problem You Human See Up

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