Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
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Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
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There were a couple of things in the intervention that made me know I needed help. One was a letter from my daughter saying that she was ashamed she had the same last name as I did, which will shock you a little bit.
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I'm neither a millennial nor a hipster.
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Rock will never be dead for me. Do I like a lot of what I hear on rock music radio? No, not for the most part. I'm not a fan of the regurgitated Pearl Jam and Nickelback crap that's the biggest thing in the Midwest. There isn't that big of a market for rock anymore. Every once in a while something happens and you like it.
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When I was in college, I used to love to watch football on Sundays.
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You can't write anything you want. Once you write that first chapter, then everything else is determined. You can write anything you want, but only one thing works.
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When you're learning, especially to write, unless you're some incredibly gifted writer, a young Malcom Gladwell, say, you need to be imitating people. You need to be imitating how they make their work, how they structure it, how they design the pieces. It gives you chops; it gives you moves.
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As it defines itself, every society defines other societies. That definition almost always takes the form of a condemnation: the 'other' is the barbarian.
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For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian.
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And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.
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I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners- two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.
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The funny thing about 'The Naked Brothers Band' movie was that we tricked the audience into thinking that we were actually rock stars.
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When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
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Through all of youth I was looking for you without knowing what I was looking for part memory part distance remaining mine in the ways that I learn to miss you from what we cannot hold the stars are made.
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Life is Time Management and then you're dead.
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Your subconscious is your best friend
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Among the masked dandies of Edwardian comedy, Max Beerbohm is the most happily armored by a deep and almost innocent love of himself as a work of art.
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Each film is different. Time Code was very quick - a matter of months. Miss Julie has been on my shelf as a script for some seven or eight years. But then the shooting process was very quick - 16 days.
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My dad was around every second. Teaching me the game.
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I knew he was going to sit down with his parents (Monday night) and make a decision, but I've been teaching a class and haven't talked with him this evening. I've not heard of a final decision, but that doesn't mean one hasn't been made.
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As for what's the most challenging aspect of teaching, it's convincing younger writers of the importance of reading widely and passionately.
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You know, I really wish now I'd had the nerve to become an actor. Because I'd have been Robert Redford, no question.
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If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
