Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea. She talked to him for what seemed a long while and she talked about this and she talked about that and it was only words, like the words he had heard once in a nursery at a friend's house, a two-year-old child building word patters, like jargon, making pretty sounds in the air.
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When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.
Damien Rice
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
Harland Williams
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
Ira Glass
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Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.
Vernon A. Walters
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If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.
Patrick Dempsey
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If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.
Carlos Slim
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I've been telling anyone willing to listen that banks have a tendency to sit on time bombs while convincing themselves that they are conservative and nonvolatile.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.
J. Edgar Hoover
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Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
Baltasar Gracian
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Creating a believable world on the ship was very important, and technically they got better and better and better at showing the ship too.
Patrick Stewart
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I've always wanted to play 'Lady Macbeth' and Strindberg's 'Miss Julie'.
Olivia d'Abo
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I try not to eat anything which is too fat, and I can't eat anything which is too sweet.
Ilya Ilyin
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By painting colours and lines and forms seen in a quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does.
Edvard Munch
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Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.
Livy
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And there was one, beneath black eaves, who thought,Combing with lifted arms her golden hair,Of the lover who hurried towards her through the night;And there was one who dreamed of a sudden deathAs she blew out her light.
Conrad Aiken
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There's not a single thing on offer in this all-too-temporary world for which you should ever sell your soul.
Alan Keyes
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A woman wants to be romanced. She wants to be an essential part of a great adventure; she wants a beauty to unveil. That is what little girls play at, and those are the movies women love and the stories that they love.
John Eldredge
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The idea of it becomes a little freaky if you're dealing with someone who has trouble differentiating between fantasy and reality, but that's a concern no matter what kind of movie you're dealing with.
Adam Arkin
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My fruit grows on other people’s trees.
Bob Buford
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I think Movable Type is a really good product for certain applications.
Molly Holzschlag
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Getting inside your character's head and letting the reader see the world through not just their eyes but their sensibility creates an intimacy that can't be duplicated in any other medium.
Stewart O'Nan
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He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea. She talked to him for what seemed a long while and she talked about this and she talked about that and it was only words, like the words he had heard once in a nursery at a friend's house, a two-year-old child building word patters, like jargon, making pretty sounds in the air.
Ray Bradbury