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Bill Bryson Quotes

There is the odd exception, like Albert Einstein, but as a breed, scientists tend not be very good at presenting themselves.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Good Odd Like Presenting Exception

Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.

Life Dinner You Life Changes Down

It was fantastic when I came into snooker, when tobacco was throwing lots of money at it, and even when they fell away we thought others would come in because of all the TV exposure. But it didn't happen.

Money Thought Others Happen Come

You only have so much time in a day.

Time Day You Only Much So Much Time

For me, at the French Open, if I wasn't playing my match I was glued to CNN watching the events unfold.

Me Events Watching Open Playing CNN

It was amazing for me to play a character opposite Benedict Cumberbatch - he's someone who I've looked up to for years - and the idea that I would work with him and then become friends with him was an amazing experience.

Work Character Experience Amazing Me

I could take a cemetery and make all the tombstones beer companies. There's a lot of craft beers that came and went. A lot of them.

Beer Craft Take Cemetery Make Them

It's more in my nature to be optimistic, I think. I'm one of those people who gets up on the right side of the bed in the morning.

Nature Morning People Think Bed Up

I spent seven years in clubs in England, Australia, etc. Not all comedians cross over to sell out in a theatre.

Theatre Australia Over Years Out

You don't get a script sent to you for two years, it crosses your mind, 'Gee, what's going on?' Then five years pass, and pretty soon a decade has gone by. Finally, you say to yourself, 'Well, if in fact that's it, then let me be happy with 30 pictures that made about $460 million and pictures that made a lot of people laugh.'

Yourself Happy People Mind Be Happy

The most outrageous shoe that I had to do was a shoe where the person gave me stones - precious stones - and say that I could do anything with precious stones.

Christian Louboutin

Me Person Say Shoe Anything Where

The villain is usually the most interesting part. But it has to be a smart thing. Just dumb cliche villains with a Russian accent and big muscles and a mean face, I don't know. My Russian accent isn't that great, and the muscles aren't that big and the mean face is not enough. You know what I mean? It gets very boring. Tedious stuff.

Christoph Waltz

Great Smart Villain Face Interesting

We are experiencing such large support for the Olympic relay that our advice is to stay in your neighbourhood, stay in your borough and wait for it to come near you.

Support Wait Advice You Stay Come

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