Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
You have to be very productive in order to become excellent. You have to go through a poor period and a mediocre period, and then you move into your excellent period. It may be very well be that some of you have done quite a bit of writing already. You maybe ready to move into your good period and your excellent period. But you shouldn't be surprised if it becomes a very long process.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute.
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I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
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'Misty of Chincoteague', 'The Black Stallion', the 'Saddle Club' books, I read 'em all. I was horse-crazy.
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I think that women are peacemakers by genetics, because we are the ones who stay at home and because we are the ones who suffer with the aftermath of war.
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The funkiest housing in Holland is for low-income, and I think that's very nice.
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I'm Glad that the Bush years are behind us
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A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.
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My friends and family know I love playing baseball - Little League through college. And every year in the annual Congressional Baseball Game for charity played at Nationals Stadium.
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There is this idea that your social media platform is the secret to success, but no one has quite proven that to be true, if you ask me.
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I'm very social, and in a place like New York, even if you're alone on the subway, you never feel lonely.
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I mostly listen to things that are so different because there's something so intriguing about trying to understand where someone is coming from.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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I'm not saying I'm wealthy. The best thing that ever happened to me in that context was turning everything over to Rita. And the business people. I am on a leash. That's not the end of the world.
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When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence.
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People are bound to comment, and that means they are following me.
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Everyone who shoots dance sequences does it in a different way. Everyone who shoots fight sequences does it in a different way.
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I'm not angry; I write about angry characters. When I'm doing that, I'm happy. Just like when I'm writing about Mickey Sabbath being lustful, I'm not feeling lustful; I'm happy.
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To have been selected to represent Team South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games in the individual 400m and the 4x400m relay is a real honor and I am so pleased that years of hard work, determination and sacrifice have all come together.
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I'm just going out there to do my role, the same role - defense first - and then see how the ball turns out on the offensive end.
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The sort of stereotypical wrestling practice is that you're doing burpees, and the coach is yelling at you to keep going, and you feel like you're going to collapse, but you somehow make it through to the end.
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You have to be very productive in order to become excellent. You have to go through a poor period and a mediocre period, and then you move into your excellent period. It may be very well be that some of you have done quite a bit of writing already. You maybe ready to move into your good period and your excellent period. But you shouldn't be surprised if it becomes a very long process.
