Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
All of the good, weird stories I’ve written are based on things I’ve dredged out of my subconscious. That’s the real stuff. Everything else is fake.
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My parents did their best - that earns a lot of forgiveness. But they say children grow up in spite of their parents, and I think I did.
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When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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The demand that school finances be transferred away from local school districts to the state and/or federal government has been a long-time favorite of the educationist lobbies.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.
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Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.
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You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts – in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms.
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We write the song, then it gets played for the artist, and they somehow fall in love with it and go back in and make it their own.
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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
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All of us have a 'voice' inside where all inspired thoughts come from. When I talk to children and aspiring writers, I always ask them to turn off the TV and listen to that voice inside them.
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You have a choice whether you want to be happy or not. I choose to be happy.
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You've got to be able to take the bad events with the good ones. You've got to learn to deal with them and learn to take as much as you can from those. Have fun and put as much as you can into it. As long as you've done your best, that's all you can do.
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Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.
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My head's a carousel of pictures andThe spinning never stops.
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I've never conformed to what my record label has said and, yes, that has meant that it's been a long journey for me.
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I'm a girl who loves to share information, especially empowering, life-changing, information.
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I don't have a lot of hobbies. I don't play golf. I don't have any children. Things that occupy people's time. I just try to take jobs.
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Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.
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You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.
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Kids will tease you for just about anything.
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Happiness is there for the taking - and the making.
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All of the good, weird stories I’ve written are based on things I’ve dredged out of my subconscious. That’s the real stuff. Everything else is fake.
