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.
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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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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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Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy.
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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.
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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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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.
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Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
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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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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.
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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.
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Be honest, be nice, be a flower not a weed.
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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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Indeed, we Jews were at the leading edge of communist totalitarianism, one of the most murderous movements of the 20th century.
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Those beliefs about the essential goodness or beauty of the world are fundamentally paper-thin bullshit. There's not an essential belief that isn't a contingent belief. It could all be destroyed in a second, at any second. And I have an issue with that.
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Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
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What you envision in your mind, how you see yourself, and how you envision the world around you is of great importance because those things become your focus.
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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.
