Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.
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My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.
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I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.
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To me the definition of true masculinity – and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
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I find it frustrating when people wear belts with braces. That's an interesting one.
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I wanted to create things that you can always pull out of your closet and rely on. I wanted to create a timeless, classic collection of clothing that you can keep expanding on.
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I think that addiction is a very, very important thing that has to be treated, but has to be treated as a health problem and not as a police problem.
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Ironically, I wouldn't say I'm a massive horror fan. I love thrillers.
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There is no difficult moment working together because when we start a new project, Dante starts to make all the sketches and I can see the vision of the movie and then I start my job.
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For 50 years, acting was the reason I got up in the morning.
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Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
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Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.
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Would you know my name if I saw you in heaven? Would it be the same If I saw you in heaven?
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Nobody loves the Boston Marathon as much as the people who make fun of it year after year. This was the race that previously offered as a prize a not particularly expensive medal, a laurel wreath, and a bowl of beef stew. This was the race that, on one memorable occasion, nobody knew who actually won.
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Thanks to the comic book publishers. Batman and Captain Marvel were responsible for my learning to read at least a year before I showed up at school. They got me interested in writing. Started my first novel at about eight. The title: 'The Canals of Mars.'
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I spend a huge amount of time writing about the book instead of writing the actual text.
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We fought very hard for feminism, for women's rights. What I'm seeing today is a very opposite thing. I don't know why, but I see women being put back in their place. And I hate it. We're losing all we worked so hard for.
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I used to take my car and go down to the South Island for five or six days and climb glaciers and jump out of planes and jump off bridges and go white water rafting - a bit of thrill-seeking.
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Were a man to consult only his reason, who would marry? For myself, I wouldn't marry, for fear of having a son who resembled me.
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If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.
