Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
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I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much.
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Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.
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When I was young in L.A. and I couldn't get into clubs or restaurants, I would call imitating celebrities and get a table, and it would work often. I was either Stallone or Mickey Rourke: 'This is Sly. I may be late, but my buddy Hank will be there early.'
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In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.
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I'm so suspicious of our own understanding of the past. I just think that your mind plays absolute tricks on you and fools you every minute of every day. And so when you're talking about the past, you're talking about something that never happened. At least it didn't happen the way you think it happened.
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When I am stressed, my No. 1 reliever is my music.
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I believe in sketching because there is something very sensitive in sketching, you know, in sketches that you don't have out of a computer that looks the same like everybody even if, later on, the dresses are OK, but I like to sketch, and I like to see trails made after my sketches that look the same. It is you know, what I like.
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Every other day there's something - I'm dealing drugs, I'm starving people. I have never done a drug in my life.
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Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.
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To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.
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I've never been into the typical R&B voice, with runs and bluesy sounding words. That doesn't suit me.
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Great acts are made up of small deeds.
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All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.
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You can't feed a cat with cream and food in the kitchen and expect him to go catch mice.
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The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.
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I'm too tired most of the time. Why do I have to take a stand on everything? Sometimes, I'm just not mad at it.
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Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
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The Chancellor has delivered his first budget but it's the same old Tories; hitting hardest at those who can least afford it and breaking their promises. This is true to form for the Tories, but it includes things that the Liberal Democrats have always fought against. Surely they cannot vote for this.
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On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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A man can fall many times in life, but he's never a failure until he refuses to get back up.
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You have to capitalise on any success you have and keep doing what you do as well as you can. But how do you define success? In my book, it's to be playing those parts you saw your idols - Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Helen Mirren, Vanessa Redgrave - playing when they were the age you are now.
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A pastor has to be media-savvy if he's going to reach everybody. I don't mean to be ugly and harsh, but to be forthright and candid. And the result is that people that don't like you start listening.
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Because he attempted to tell in his painting 'The Jewish Cemetery' painted by Ruisdael, that which is outside the reach of art... .there are ruins to indicate old age, a stream to signify the course of life, and rocks and precipices to shadow forth its dangers. But how are we to discover all this?
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Notoriety and a fat bank balance must come after everything else is finished and done.
