Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
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Music is not a work for me - it's a form of meditation, and you don't need to work hard for it.
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Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.
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I think a lot more people are starting to understand the power of YouTube.
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I have a terrible tendency to lick my fingers when I cook. So much so that I got a telling off from my pastry teacher years ago, who said it would hinder my prospects.
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I generally travel with my laptop, a couple of great books, and my iPod.
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I got all my politics and culture and my sense of the great wide world of adults from 'Mad Magazine.' But all other comic books literally gave me a headache.
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The Chinese economy's still not that much of a consumer economy.
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In the '50s, critics used to say I had a 'dangerous' act.
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No man can add one dollar to his bank account by worrying.
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I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.
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Psychologism is the most comfortable conception of life, because according to it there are no longer any more problems. That is why it also condemns all solutions from the outset, since it acknowledges the actual problems as little as the idea of truth.
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I have so many friends who hate their jobs and man, it's such a struggle trying to find what they love or what they dream of. I feel so lucky that I found what I love and my dreams have started to come true.
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It takes brains to make money, but any dam fool can inherit. P.S.: I never inherited any money.
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It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
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Humanity does not come with citizenship or a green card.
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God is not a vending machine where if you put in enough prayer quarters we get a Reese's Pieces bag that pops out.
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The requirements to obtain a concealed license are similar and often times stricter than that of obtaining a standard ID card.
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Cuts of clothes and shapes of clothes are really important.
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Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a beautiful thing you can hand in, probably late, to your editor.
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In middle school, one day this girl was like, 'One day you wore Abercrombie, and one day you wore Quicksilver.' I was like, 'Hold on... what?' I'm usually really calm, but I kind of went off on her. Because I decided to wear Quicksilver one day, you can't place me? How stupid to have to live inside that box.
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When the show first stopped back in the ‘80s, I and a lot of the other actors thought people would stop talking about it… [but] it began rerunning in all the other countries, it didn’t go away, it only escalated. I get recognized more now than I did when the show as running. There was a time in my 20s when I would say I didn’t want to be recognized as Nellie forever… but Nellie was a lot of fun to play… Indeed, I thought I’d be sick of it, but now, it just makes me smile.
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I wanted all the music to sound strong. It's all down to the restoration and mastering. In many ways I feel the work in general was never properly mastered in the first place. To me, making the music sound the way we wanted it was by far my biggest goal with the re-issues.
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It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.
