Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
Dandelion wine. The words were summer on the tongue. The wine was summer caught and stoppered...sealed away for opening on a January day with snow falling fast and the sun unseen for weeks.
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Americans think Soviets are so grim. I want them to see that they can smile.
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My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized I wasn't creating spontaneously; I was enforcing all these parameters. I was too self-loathing or something, and there was this obvious dissonance between my conversational voice and creative voice.
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When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.'
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I came from Canada, where it's freezing cold for seven months out of the year.
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The world is full of people who would like nothing better than to spend six hours on a golf course. I would rather be chopping shallots.
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Hispanic values are conservative values. Hispanics are highly religious, they're very strongly pro-traditional family... not only pro-family, but also pro-life. They are highly patriotic.
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Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.
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I'd grown up doing children's theater there, and I always imagined myself being artistic director of a children's theater company.
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I like soundtracks and I like film.
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He had a bitter pain in his heart, for he knew that she was still a stranger to him and his hungry love was destined ever to remain unsatisfied.
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Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless.
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All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
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My character on 'Orange is the New Black' is not one that requires being absolutely shredded with 5% body fat. But I wouldn't be opposed to doing that for a role one day.
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I have the luck to choose what to do in my life.
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The law seemed to be always what I came back to. I have never, one day in my life as a lawyer, regretted my decision to become a lawyer.
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I keep in touch with these people who knew me long before I got a record deal.
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I didn't grow up with great privilege, nor did I grow up wanting for anything. I was a middle-class kid and, relative to the rest of the world, that's great wealth.
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When I am back home, I have an upright piano and I play constantly.
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For every company that sees the value of their capital go up, there's another company that has been disrupted, and the value of their capital gets marked down because it's not going to compete in the same way.
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We are better givers than getters, not because we are generous people, but because we are proud, arrogant people. The Christmas story-the one according to Luke, not Dickens-is not about how blessed it is to be givers but about how essential it is to see ourselves as receivers.
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Make everybody fall out of the plane first, and then explain who they were and why they were in the plane to begin with.
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Meeting the person you are going to be playing is very unique.
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I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into your life.
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Dandelion wine. The words were summer on the tongue. The wine was summer caught and stoppered...sealed away for opening on a January day with snow falling fast and the sun unseen for weeks.
