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Bill Bryson Quotes

I've never quite understood that feeling: that you arrive in a strange place, yet you want to have nothing but familiar experiences.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

You Feeling Place Want Nothing

You get spoiled as a novelist because you get to be the director and the editor, and you play all the parts, but as a screenwriter, you are a bit down the ladder.

You Down Play Ladder Director Get

My influence is probably more from American crime writers than any Europeans. And I hardly read any Scandinavian crime before I started writing myself. I wasn't a great crime reader to begin with.

Great Myself Writing Influence Crime

On my grandmother's chicken farm, they had cows, and they had this big metal container that the cows drank out of, and we used to swim in it. And we used to get into the chicken feed bins and dive through them.

Farm Chicken Grandmother Dive Out

I miss Swedish meatballs, but you can get them pretty much anywhere.

You Pretty Miss Get Anywhere Much

In my wildest dreams I never thought - well, I never thought I'd work.

Work Dreams Thought Never Well

There are a lot of movies made for nobody.

Nobody Movies Made Lot

I'd like to form a club just for fathers. Specifically, fathers of daughters. There would be lots of overstuffed leather chairs, wood paneling, dim lights. The works.

Steve Schirripa

Lights Wood Leather Club Just Would

I've seen a lot of seasons, change in my time. It's been a very lucky life.

Life Change Time Seasons Lucky Seen

Dead people never seem to address the obvious - the things you'd think they'd be bursting to talk about, and the things all of us not-yet-dead are madly curious about. Such as: 'Hey, where are you now? What do you do all day? What's it feel like being dead? Can you see me? Even when I'm on the toilet? Would you cut that out?'

Day Curious People Me Think You

I love Baltimore, I definitely look at it as home, somewhere I'm very comfortable.

Love Home Look Comfortable Somewhere

Canada has, at times, represented itself as a country in a valiant struggle against powerful and menacing agents that are indifferent to its special practices and sensibilities - most especially American culture. It's the old, outdated garrison mentality.

Culture Struggle American Powerful

If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.

Luciano Pavarotti

Music Age Children Believe Early

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