Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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Look at Jessica Simpson. She's famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe, and she actually wasn't that dumb, but that's how she was perceived - and that's what got popular.
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I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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'Twilight' fans are different. They're very civil with one another. It's a respect because they're all in this together and they all appreciate the same things.
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The actors in 'Eight Men Out' really know how to play, and the background athletes are all professionals.
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Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.
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Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when I became a poet and started answering, speaking back to his poems in ways that I had not before.
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I'm not one of these actresses like, 'Okay, where's the camera? Is it here? Is it here?' I don't even ask the questions because I don't really want to know. I like not performing for a camera but giving it my best every single time whether you're close or whether you're far.
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It's important to recognize how special New Orleans is. You play the snare drum or the clarinet in any other city, and you'd be considered a nerd, but here, there's no shame in it, and it's absolutely valued.
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My parents were in high school when I was born. My mom was 16, my dad was 17. They were kids, at the very beginning of coming into their own and finding themselves.
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I want a director who can let me feel that he's listening and watching and that he's got me covered. That security is really important for me because sometimes you go into a vulnerable space, and you want to be able to look to somebody because you get insecure: 'Did I do that right?'
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In June 1992, I discovered a lump in my breast. A subsequent mammogram, ultrasound and a needle biopsy proved negative. But my instinct said it still didn't feel right, so I had a lumpectomy. I then got the news that it was cancer.
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Come to think of it, the way I play is like a drum machine- very mechanical.
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To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
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I'm a pretty nice dude. I have fun, and people take it the wrong way.
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Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.
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Though Nathalie Dupree did not remember much about my presence in her class, it marked me forever. I remain her enthusiast, her evangelist, her acolyte, and her grateful student. She taught me that cooking and storytelling make the most delightful coconspirators.
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I am open to them. If I come across something interesting, and I think it suits me, I may do a horror movie.
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The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.
