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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• 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.

  

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

  

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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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• Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

  

  Karl A. Menninger
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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.

  

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• I can be not showered and dressed like a slob, but my lip gloss will be on!

  

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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
  • Fear
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• We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions.

  

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

  

  Sally Hawkins
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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
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• Be honest, be nice, be a flower not a weed.

  

  Aaron Neville
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  • Flower
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• Acting is a form of confusion.

  

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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.

  

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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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• My friends call me Clark Kent: I'm known to change in phone booths.

  

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• I designed the miniskirt that caused so much havoc in the Sixties - the miniskirt that was such fun but has travelled well to today.

  

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• Foreign policy can mean several things, not only foreign policy in the narrow sense. It can cover foreign policy, relations with the developing world, and enlargement as well.

  

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• My brother joined the Army. He served multiple tours in Iraq and now lives in Texas with his family.

  

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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