Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
I want to feel all there is to feel, he thought. Let me feel tired, now, let me feel tired. I mustn't forget, I'm alive, I know I'm alive, I mustn't forget it tonight or tomorrow or the day after that.
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I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'
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I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
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A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
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Every single day, I get up and I say, 'I am going to live and not die.'
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People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets.
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I like football, but I think this is a very personal matter. I don't see any negatives for some Russian rich man to buy a football club.
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I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.
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The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
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Every day proves to me more and more that this American world was not made for me.
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We do have depression in the family, and I've experienced it as it pops up from time to time. It is easier to deal with when I have someone looking to me to do things.
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You wonder, 'How could it possibly be me?' Well, of course it could happen to you. You have it. Then, of course, you wake up every morning, and you hope it's a bad dream. Then you wake up. I have cancer.
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Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what you're doing.
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I never say no.
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I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.
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Someone once told me that God figured that I was a pretty good juggler. I could keep a lot of balls in the air at one time. So He said, "Let's see if he can juggle another one."
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The problem is that if you're self-conscious about being a person on whom nothing is lost, isn't something lost - some kind of presence? You're distracted by trying to be totally, perfectly impressionable.
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Tomorrow at sunrise I shall no longer be here.
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I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.
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I want to feel all there is to feel, he thought. Let me feel tired, now, let me feel tired. I mustn't forget, I'm alive, I know I'm alive, I mustn't forget it tonight or tomorrow or the day after that.
