Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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I was initially a leading man, but only on television.
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Several of the actors I've had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as 'ultimate'. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews.
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The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
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As for the level of spectacle of the two disciplines, I leave it to the people who watch the races to comment.
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There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.
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I got into sports because that was a way to prove your masculinity. I was good at it.
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The core character of Victorians is one of aspiration and ambition, and Victorians have, since first settlement days... demonstrated that core character over and over again.
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It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.
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If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
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El matador de almas no mata cien almas; mata una alma sola, cien veces.
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In my new IFC comedy game show, 'Bunk,' we actually use our intern Patrick as a human timer - giving contestants the time it takes for him to wade through a bag of broken glass for a razor blade, to get gum out of his hair, to pick up every strand from a box of spaghetti I spill on the floor, etc, etc.
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Acting has always been such escapism for me.
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Wilde is an invaluable acquaintance. Often, in situations where I am required to appear witty, I simply steal large chunks from his works and attempt to pass them off as my own with minor modifications.
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I try to be as honest as I can in writing. That's what ends up translating and relating to people.
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I blend my green drink every morning. I also fix my son a full-on American breakfast with bacon and toast.
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It is impossible to live the life of a disciple without definite times of secret prayer. You will find that the place to enter in is in your business, as you walk along the streets, in the ordinary ways of life, when no one dreams you are praying, and the reward comes openly, a revival here, a blessing there.
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A lot of the time I'm in the present, and I'm thinking about the past or scheming about the future and missing every present moment, instead of actually partaking of the sacrament of every present moment.
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I will not only not steal, but I will run after thieves.
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My business is to prevent the future.
