Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
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I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. There's no way around it; if you're really going to be serious about a movie, it has to be your life.
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Sometimes when it comes to the iconic kind of moments, when I read the script for the first time, you get little goose bumps or something because it really is kind of exciting.
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Whenever you write for someone else, you're always aware - sometimes overtly, other times at an almost cellular, subliminal level - of the rules about what you can and can't do.
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Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.
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If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens.
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We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.
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Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes.
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I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
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To say that only those businesses affected with a public interest may be regulated is but another way of stating that all those businesses which may be regulated are affected with a public interest.
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I'm still enjoying discovering more designers and getting to play dress-up in a bigger way than I ever have before.
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I think we could all do better sometimes of not overextending ourselves as much.
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To search for a pianist, it is very difficult; sometimes you find one.
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I'm somebody who doesn't feel the need to be in the driver's seat all the time. I appreciate the perspective of being in the passenger's seat sometimes, and I feel fortunate for that because I've learned a lot from that perspective.
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We convince by our presence.
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If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it well. That's just my character, that's just the way it is with me.
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The only way I would go back to hosting would be if it were something entirely new. It would prevent me from wanting to host a standard-fare kind of talk show.
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Sometimes people only see horrible, terrible things in my paintings.
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My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing.'
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It comes in handy in situations like that. People always expect you to be riding around in stretch limousines all the time, but I will sometimes take public transportation if it's convenient, and it does surprise people, you see the heads turn.
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You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.
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I never wanted to be a trophy wife. I wanted to make it on my own. I didn't want to depend on a man.
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Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not combine them naively with a thoroughly immoral way of living, had replace normal religious practice by more or less extravagant superstitions.
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Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.
