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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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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In art school, you learn that design is much more than the look and feel of something - it's the whole experience.
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I'm known among my friends for saying things I probably shouldn't sometimes, but I have to get things out in the air.
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On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and remains one of the most interesting figures of music history in the past century.
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You can always affect things - so can you change it in a way that will make you as happy with it in the future as you were in the past? Maybe it won't be the same, but it might be something else you also like.
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America's the one country in the world where anybody who comes here does better than where they came from.
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Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.
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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.
