Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they write themselves.

Ray Bradbury

• Mind
• Stories
• Given
• Imaginative

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• Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
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• I have a great office.

  

  R. L. Stine
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• I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.

  

  Young Buck
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  • Streets
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• I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer.

  

  Aaron Spelling
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• True friends stab you in the front.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• You never get the Shakespeares right. It's not possible.

  

  Jack O'Brien
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• I had practiced with the team, and the first scheduled game was with the University of Missouri. They made it quite clear to the Army that they would not play a team with a black player on it. Instead of telling me the truth, the Army gave me leave to go home.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Home
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• Declamation roared, while Passion slept.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Passion

• O Man, as long as you exist, know, have, and cherish, You have not been delivered, believe me, of your burden.

  

  Angelus Silesius
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• With skill she vibrates her eternal tongue,Forever most divinely in the wrong.

  

  Edward Young
  • She
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• La tierra tiene lo que tú levantas de la tierra. Nada más tiene.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• China invaded Tibet. It invaded it. So all this nonsense about them being the same country is absurd. It's called Tibet. If it was part of China, it would be called China, wouldn't it?

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Country

• I go around the country sharing my story. I aim to dare other people to go deep into their own stories and hope to inspire them to think about their own world and experiences.

  

  Clemantine Wamariya
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• When you're not sure your anger is justified, the thing to do is ask yourself exactly where it's coming from.

  

  Lynn Coady

• I tend to be more of a novel writer. In fact, some of my novels started out as short stories, and I just got carried away! I think some of my best writing is in the short story form, but novels come more naturally to me.

  

  Bruce Coville
  • Writing

• Almost every script that I've gotten has been for sort of the generic Hollywood type. I haven't chosen them. All the ones I have chosen are because I've been fascinated with the source material or because of the script.

  

  Ben Barnes

• I would like to say I've achieved goals, but really, modeling is all luck. You're not really achieving anything. The least hardworking person with a special face can be huge and have a whole world of success.

  

  Brooklyn Decker
  • World
  • Success
  • Goals

• If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious.

  

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

• I'll post a video, and it might get 10,000 comments, and I'll scroll through and they'll all be lovely and nice - but then they'll be one saying, 'I hate you; I'm unsubscribing' and that's the one that sticks out and stays on your mind all day.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Mind
  • Hate
  • Nice

• I listen to Billy Joel. He is fabulous. I saw him with Elton John when they toured together, it was so great.

  

  Marlee Matlin
  • Great
  • Together

• I didn't want to say "No" because I didn't want people to think I'm not nice. And that, to me, has been the greatest lesson of my life: to recognize that I am solely responsible for it, and not trying to please other people, and not living my life to please other people, but doing what my heart says all the time.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• It doesn't mean a thing when others tell you you're good. You have to feel it yourself.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • Good

• You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they write themselves.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Mind
  • Stories
  • Given