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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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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Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.
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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
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I sang 'A Closer Walk with Thee' along with blues singer Brownie McGhee, ... Then there was a show where Carol Houston, an actress on 'Matlock' sang 'It Is Well With My Soul' accompanied by a choir. Boy, that was powerful.
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Interestingly, songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter.
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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.
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Save the fleeting minute; learn gracefully to dodge the bore.
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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.
