Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
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The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!
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Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
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Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly positive to say.
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If you have children, you worry about the world you're leaving them.
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If you want to teach women to be great writers, you should show them the best, and the best was often done by men. It was more often done by men than by women, if we're going to be truthful.
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The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
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You must not take out your sword because if you try to kill someone, you must die for it yourself. What you must do instead is kill yourself, kill your own mind.
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I do not know, sir, that the fellow is an infidel; but if he be an infidel, he is an infidel as a dog is an infidel; that is to say, he has never thought upon the subject.
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Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it-whole-heartedly-and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings. sic
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I look at the camera as sort of a missing link between motion picture photography and still photography.
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Something I should have achieved quite easily took me a long time to get around to.
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I'm so lucky to do what I do, traveling across the country and making people laugh.
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Literally from the moment I came in the door of MIT, it was very clear that a highly productive 40-year partnership between U.S. research universities and the federal government was badly eroding.
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When I am in love, I am ridiculously and hopelessly romantic.
Jacqueline Fernandez -
I'd like to think I'm a normal sort of guy, but go to my mum and she'll probably say, 'You know, Chris was always the daughter out of my three boys.'
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I saw it with my own eyes: Israelis and Palestinians, arm in arm, walking off together and clearly pricing how you could get your truck to the top of the line or get it through at all. It was an absolutely transparently corrupt system at the border - you had to buy your truck's way across. I thought it was a disgrace.
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Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response.
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If we're stuck with having expectations, there's a very good reason to embrace positive ones: It's that we often create what we anticipate.
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Looking back, I was a very good kid, very studious and all. But I would always come out with a quip - and I was sent to the principal's office several times.
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Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us.
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I'm shy, but when the time comes to be wild, I'm fun-loving, adventurous, and mysterious.
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Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her.
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The blizzard doesn't last forever; it just seems so.
