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.
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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.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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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.
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If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.
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If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.
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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.
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Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.
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Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
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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.
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I've always wanted to play 'Lady Macbeth' and Strindberg's 'Miss Julie'.
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I try not to eat anything which is too fat, and I can't eat anything which is too sweet.
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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.
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Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.
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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.
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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.
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My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers.
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As the 19th century teetered into the 20th, the clank of typewriter keys went from solo to symphony. They were the weapon of choice for professional writers, the business elite, people with things to say and the need to say them quickly.
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An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.
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You know, the genders are different in how they approach things, and so I really think that women put a lot more guilt on themselves than need be.
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All Iraqis can unite to defeat terrorism and can unite to rebuild the country.
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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.
