Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
Life shoould be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at other move forward with it.
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It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
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I wasn't naturally drawn to fashion when I was younger but with my work I'm so exposed to what's out there that I'm hoping my style has become a little more sophisticated.
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This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.
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For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
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The Loire Valley is grossly underestimated. The prices are fair, and the wines are real.
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A weaker currency is a national tariff. After we get a weaker currency, we have to take advantage of that. Or else, we will waste it once more in inflation and in the inability to raise competitiveness.
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But I think primarily, it's the fans that make this race.
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Life isn't always really glamorous and fabulous. It's about encouraging people to go back to natural beauty.
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In Peru, if you gave somebody a little chance to do something, they took it to the furthest extent. They took nothing for granted. And here in L.A., you kind of get caught up in your own little dilemmas and your own little life.
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I think Bruno Mars is a great example of a great voice and classic songwriting with a twist that makes it contemporary. I think he's done a great job of it. I think Katy Perry has undeniable songs for what she does, for that pop market. And, if we're talking in the truly pop market, I would say those two.
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My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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England is very, very important to me, because in my family the English could do no wrong. When my father picked a mistress, it was always an English girl: if he made her pregnant, she could be shipped back to England and he would not be held responsible. It never happened, but I've made a lot of work called The English Can Do No Wrong.
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Having one national standard for mpg and CO2 is extremely important.
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When 'Joy Luck Club' came out, I kind of became a role model for the Asian acting community. I started to talk at colleges and emcee charity things. I'm much more connected to my sense of being Asian now.
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I can't imagine being a girl out there on the road. We can throw a hat on and stink. Girls have to do their hair.
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Until I was six years old we lived in the projects, then my two brothers and three sisters and I moved to a three-bed that my mother's father built.
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It just didn't feel right to let my child scream and holler and thrash by her little self in the dark in her crib when I knew full well that a little rocking in her glider, maybe a song and a sweet nuzzle of her cheek would send her off to dreamland.
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In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.
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I've seen a few 60-point ballgames in my time, but none of them had been done by the third quarter.
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I believe in Beatles, I believe my little soul has grown.
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I used to love looking at a recipe, getting all the bits and pieces in the shops, getting them ready and prepared... I don't really have the time to do that anymore.
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Justification and regeneration are simultaneous. The pardoned sinner becomes a child of God in justification.
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Life shoould be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at other move forward with it.
