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Bill Bryson Quotes

It is unthinkable to have a British countryside that doesn't have actual functioning farmers riding tractors, cows in fields, things like that.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Farmers Riding Fields Things British

I look at the story, I look at the idea and just try to think of it in terms of that whole body of myth and see where the characters fit in and what they ought to be doing-all those archetypes are there to play with.

Story Think Body Look Play Try

Jam Cruise is actually a comfortable place for me. My jamming skills and my improvisational skills have improved immensely as I've gone more solo, because I've had this opportunity.

Opportunity Me Place Skills Cruise

My son tried to work in films and he ultimately gave it up, he finally couldn't make a living, he couldn't support himself. He worked all the time and he didn't make enough money to have a house, have an apartment.

Work Son Time Money Support Enough

Owen Wilson is an actor, but think of him as a sort of secret agent. He has an offbeat, indie-movie sensibility. Every so often, however, he infiltrates some big-budget movie he clearly doesn't belong in - 'Anaconda,' 'Armageddon,' 'The Haunting' - and struggles valiantly to stop it from sucking.

Think Stop Actor Secret Him Clearly

Power to the peaceful!

Power Peace Peaceful

That was after Napoleon died because there is still a controversy as to whether Napoleon was poisoned with arsenic. And the French say the British did it and the British say the French did it, but he died before the test for arsenic was available.

Say Test British Controversy Because

I'm not a people person. I'm not sociable. I have been and I can be, but not as a general rule.

People I Can Person Rule Been

Cliched characters are cliches because they're people being described by people who are on the outside. If you take two sentences from anybody and reduce them to just that, that's what you're going to get.

Michael Cudlitz

People You Outside Two Take Going

The way it works in our family is, it's the family business. Much like in the Mafia. Every child is given the opportunity to act at a young age and to learn what it's like to be in the business.

Family Business Age Opportunity Way

I'm not really in a rush to grow up.

Grow Grow Up Up Rush Really

I think my career would probably be in a better place had I been more aggressive. But I don't have it in me. I'm not a competitive person, and I'm also really private.

Me Think Better Career Place Person

I wrote strong advocacy stories, and when I got to fiction, I made a deliberate effort to leave that behind and enter a country where I had no ax to grind, no advocacy issues that I was carrying with me.

Effort Me Strong Grind Country

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