Bill Bryson Quotes

To me, the greatest invention of my lifetime is the laptop computer and the fact that I can be working on a book and be in an airport lounge, in a hotel room, and continue working; I fire up my laptop, and I'm in exactly the same place I was when I left home - that, to me, is a miracle.

Bill Bryson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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It has been said that on screen I personified the American woman.

Joan Crawford

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I'm not an '80s fan. I'm more '70s New York pre-punk kind of thing, and I guess I grew up with '90s grunge, post-punk pop music.

Jessica Pare

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I worked check-to-check, worked in dead-end jobs my whole life before I got into stand-up, and even during stand-up, I was working at a retail job and Starbucks, all those places.

Jermaine Fowler

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I think the arts are very important for children growing up.

Stephen Schwartz

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I'm not homophobic, I'm not a bigot, I'm not pandering to hatred.

Sonny Bono

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It is not a liberty of circumstance, conceded to us alone, that we wish; it is the adoption absolute of the principle that no man, born red, black or white, can be the property of his fellow man.

Toussaint Louverture

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I hate the word 'hippy.'

Robert Carlyle

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I'm excited about what technology is offering storytellers and movie- and TV-makers.

Ron Howard

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The thing I have to do as a writer, and that God permits me to do, is that I have to be willing to fail.

Mary Karr

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I think the merging of high and low culture is so fascinating.

Lola Kirke

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In my relationship, I was giving myself away to make the relationship better, but in actuality, wasn't doing better by doing that. I became less of a man.

Jason Mraz

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If you've got a lot of children, I think you let the other children bring them up more and you just sort of step in and do stuff like every now and again.

Diane Cilento

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