Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
I prefer to see myself as the Janus, the two-faced god who is half Pollyanna and half Cassandra, warning of the future and perhaps living too much in the past - a combination of both.
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He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
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Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!
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I'm so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain't affecting my life at all.
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The answer scrawled on a blank page in a daily newspaper, was conceived whilst aboard a ferry.
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Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.
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In recording, you're trying to make something work sonically - getting the right inflection on the right guitar sound - and maybe a part that would be musically great doesn't sound as cool. On paper, though, it's all stripped back. The musical idea is the one that wins.
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As an actor, what I'm finding is that I really like the extremes. I think that's really fun to play with.
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He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presence of his father.
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There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
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Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
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It would be inaccurate to say the Tea Partiers are racists. What they are, in truth, are narcissists.
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I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because none of these things happened to me.
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I like Lil Wayne.
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As women, we get the message about how to be a good girl - how to be a good, pretty girl - from such an early age. Then, at the same time, we're told that well-behaved girls won't change the world or ever make a splash.
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I got extreme street credibility from my high school-aged son. He's like, 'Dad, the fact that you're in 'American Horror Story' is absolutely cool!' I was like, 'Okay, but I'm not sure if it's appropriate for you.' And he was like, 'Dad, come on! I'm a New York City kid - in high school.'
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A lot of 'Star Wars' fans who are specifically Asian never had a character they could dress up like, or they would, and people would always call them 'Asian Rey' or 'Asian fill-in-the-blank.'
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Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives.
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If a script comes together, and you end up liking the people who are part of it, that's when you can make magic happen. It's a huge combination of trying to find something you think you can deliver on and a director you think you can collaborate with to make a good picture.
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Over the past decade a combination of diverse forces has created a significant increase in the global supply of saving -- a global saving glut.
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I never get recognized for 'Mean Girls.' I can be walking around with Daniel Franzese, who's in the movie and a friend of mine, and people will come up to him and start freaking out and have no idea who I am.
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One can't erase the tremendous burden of apartheid in 10 years, 20 years, I believe, even 30 years.
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I prefer to see myself as the Janus, the two-faced god who is half Pollyanna and half Cassandra, warning of the future and perhaps living too much in the past - a combination of both.
