Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
That's life for you," said MacDunn. "Someone always waiting for someone who never comes home. Always someone loving some thing more than that thing loves them. And after a while you want to destroy whatever that thing is, so it can't hurt you no more.
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I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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I've been kind of toying around with the bi thing in my head. I wouldn't ever give myself the label 'bisexual', but bi-curious? Yea.
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I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don't want anyone to read them.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.
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We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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In order to do a musical now, a style must be developed that works for today's audience.
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As a singer, you have to bring the soul to the song.
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So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don't want to hear any of that.
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I was very fortunate to grow up with parents who love to travel, so I traveled from a young age. My dad's a heart surgeon and goes to conferences all over the world. By the time I was seven, I traveled outside the country for the first time. We went to Paris. The next year, we went to London, and then Brussels.
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
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I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on.
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The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life.
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We now to peace and darknessAnd earth and thee restoreThy creature that thou madestAnd wilt cast forth no more.
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Fifty years ago, 100 white men chasing one black man across a field was called the Ku Klux Klan. Today it's called the PGA Tour.
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Words are, quite simply, weapons. How a person or an act or a thought looks depends entirely upon how - and by whom - it is described.
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Freedom is messy. In free societies, people will fall through the cracks - drink too much, eat too much, buy unaffordable homes, fail to make prudent provision for health care, and much else. But the price of being relieved of all those tiresome choices by a benign paternal government is far too high. Big Government is the small option: it's the guarantee of smaller freedom, smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller opportunities, smaller lives.
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That's life for you," said MacDunn. "Someone always waiting for someone who never comes home. Always someone loving some thing more than that thing loves them. And after a while you want to destroy whatever that thing is, so it can't hurt you no more.
