Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
When you write - explode - fly apart - disintegrate! Then give time enough to think, cut, rework, and rewrite.
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.
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I just want to sit in my room and write books.
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I am pleased to tell you that he is finally getting some rest and is regaining his appetite as well.
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A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.
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A hard man is good to find.
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One thing people would be surprised about is that although hard rock and heavy metal are without question 90% of what I listen to and my passion, there are other things I enjoy. My first ever favorite band in my life before KISS was a power-pop band called The Raspberries.
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If any of you have seen my shows, you know that I don't skimp on them and the same is true for the gym. We spend what it takes to make a globally first-class gym.
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Feminism is universal. You can't just fight for one type of freedom or one type of female power. You know what? Muslim women want to cover up, and we have to fight for our right to do that, too.
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One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures.
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The bigger you become of a celebrity, the bigger the expectations, the pressure on you - to make change, to say what people want, to target the people they want to target. Fame is toxic; it is quite toxic.
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There have been many occasions when I found it helpful to talk out loud to my own thoughts, ordering the unwholesome ones to go off somewhere and jump into the river.
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I see no good reason why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of any one.
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We choose mania over boredom every time.
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When Edna O'Brien's first novel, 'The Country Girls,' was published in 1960, her family and neighbors in the small Irish village where she was born tossed copies into a bonfire expressly set for that horrifying purpose.
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When I tell people I'm an Italian Jew, they're very amused by it. But obviously by blood I'm Jewish, because my mother is.
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Respect the place you live, be aware of the impact that you have on things.
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It was only after five years in the army, when I was having to do a very boring job in a very boring place, that I thought: 'Why not try writing a novel?' partly out of youthful arrogance and partly because there had been a long line of writers in my mother's family.
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Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. I don't think it is the role of the state to define what marriage is.
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One of the things I did in my book, I start off with, is explaining how great our grace was: the things we were able to accomplish after the first one-hundred years from slavery.
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I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.
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When you write - explode - fly apart - disintegrate! Then give time enough to think, cut, rework, and rewrite.
