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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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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If there's a stereotype that you're not supposed to be good at something, that still gets so badly in your way of concentrating.
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Psmith is the only thing in my literary career which was handed to me on a plate with watercress round it, thus enabling me to avoid the blood, sweat and tears inseparable from an author's life.
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I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each.
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I'm in a complete state of panic before I begin something because I'm sure that it's going to be a complete disaster. I'm going to do a worse job than anybody could ever imagine anybody doing on the planet Earth.
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When you write - explode - fly apart - disintegrate! Then give time enough to think, cut, rework, and rewrite.
