Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

...if you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are so busy keeping one eye on the commercial market, or one ear peeled for the avant-garde coterie, that you are not being yourself. You don't even know yourself. For the first thing a writer should be is-- excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms.

Ray Bradbury

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• Excited
• Enthusiasm

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  Barry Ritholtz
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• My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.

  

  Maiara Walsh
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• If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
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• I never thought about having a daughter, and then I had a daughter, and it was a remarkable thing. It was very different from having a son and your response to it. With a son, it's much more complex. And it's probably because of my stuff in the past. With a daughter, I was surprised at how simple it is.

  

  Sam Shepard
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• The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.

  

  Os Guinness
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• I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.

  

  Wayne Knight
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• Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

  

  Salvador Dali
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• We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

  

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  • Doing
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• You only do good work when you're taking risks and pushing yourself.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Good
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• I have plenty of investments that I wish I'd never made. But the model is to lose money on a lot of investments and then make 1,000X or 10,000X on an investment.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Money
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• Be honest, be nice, be a flower not a weed.

  

  Aaron Neville
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• Acting is a form of confusion.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
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• Our songs all carry the same way.

  

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• I know who Jack Whittaker is. And some days I don't like who I am.

  

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• So shall he strive, in changeful hue,Field, feast, and combat, to renew,And loves, and arms, and harpers' glee,And all the pomp of chivalry.

  

  Walter Scott
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• Will there be a political backlash against British Prime Minister Theresa May, whose ruling Conservative Party is traditionally seen as 'stronger' on terrorism than its main rival, the Labour Party?

  

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• At 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are.

  

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• You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

  

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• I go through periods of not writing. Until there's something I can't find in the world that I need, so I write.

  

  Daphne Gottlieb
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• One change of attitude would change everything. If everyone realized that it could be a beautiful world and said let's not do these things anymore - let's have fun.

  

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  • Fun
  • Beautiful

• Football matters so much to people, and they get very defensive - or angry.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Football
  • Angry

• What I'm bringing to the pop table is that I'm not pretentious.

  

  Kesha

• Before, I was really passive, all I cared about was being in love with my boyfriend. I didn't have any creative power, nothing. I don't know that person any more.

  

  Gwen Stefani No Doubt
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• ...if you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are so busy keeping one eye on the commercial market, or one ear peeled for the avant-garde coterie, that you are not being yourself. You don't even know yourself. For the first thing a writer should be is-- excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Mean