Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
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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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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
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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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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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When I write songs, I'm just writing stories, and being in musical theatre taught me how to act them out through singing.
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As a woman, a lot of stories haven't been told and we've got a lot of catching up to do.
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Theater, for me, is no longer a conversation about how we destroy each other; it's much more about how we may be destroying everyone else.
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Obviously, the bulk of my Nike shares have been set up in a trust.
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I've played parts that were just likable people, and there's a certain pleasure in that. And that's that.
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Put it this way: If I asked, 'How's business?' and you say, 'Boomin' or 'Amazing,' I already know the answer.
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If General Motors can't survive and run their business like a business, let them go under.
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Never let yourself get fooled by the same pitcher on the same pitch on the same day.
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Men still wear cologne, but I wish they wouldn't. No matter what you may believe, all men's fragrances smell like the air freshener in a taxi.
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My business is to prevent the future.
