Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
Lone at night, when I was twelve years old, I looked at the planet Mars and I said, 'Take me home!' And the planet Mars took me home, and I never came back. So I've written every day in the last 75 years. I've never stopped writing.
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The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
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There's layers to our stuff: Our top layer is like candy-coated pop, because we want to party and have a nice time, but we also have a lot of different human experiences and other levels present in the Die Antwoord experience.
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You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
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Music is such a part of my soul.
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No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.
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There's only one remedy for crime - get rid of the psychs! They are causing it!
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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
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It is not the same thing. You are perhaps not lying, but you are not telling the truth.
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The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.
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'Juno' really changed things for me and I get a lot of screenplays come in now, but I like to self-generate and I like to kind of pursue my own ideas. And I think the more personal the better.
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Maybe during the last sprint, sometimes you can lose, sometimes you can gain.
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The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why, maybe it's the testosterone - I think it's narcissism. Even more than hubris. And for women, too. Narcissism is the killer.
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I feel like we're attracted to paths in life that force us to look at our weaknesses or deficiencies as human beings. Not to get all deep on you, but that's how I feel.
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I did attend a convention with the production company behind 'The Woman' and 'Jug Face,' and I loved it and thought, 'I have to come back, as they are so much fun!' But those tickets are really expensive, and you're buying merchandise, and you want autographed pictures with people, so it's kind of like Disney World.
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I'm not sure I could write a straight urban fantasy any more than I could write a straight contemporary story. I would end up being intimidated by all the small details.
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Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.
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There are actors in this town who made important careers for a long, long period just by taking the parts that Cary Grant turned down.
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I'm active even on bad days; it's tough to pin me down. People ask me if I'm a morning or night person. I'm an all-the-time person. I like drinking coffee, but I do it with lots of milk because my energy levels are high even without caffeine. You could call me Obelix, except I don't have a belly.
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Golf during the day, music during the night - it don't get much better.
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The rich man... is always sold to the institution which makes him rich.
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Lone at night, when I was twelve years old, I looked at the planet Mars and I said, 'Take me home!' And the planet Mars took me home, and I never came back. So I've written every day in the last 75 years. I've never stopped writing.
