Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
The trouble with a lot of people who try to write is they intellectualize about it. That comes after. The intellect is given to us by God to test things once they’re done, not to worry about things ahead of time.
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
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Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
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Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.
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I'm much more optimistic about this next generation because this is the first global generation.
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I go out and speak to women's groups all the time, and I say, 'Guys, you gotta laugh and find the humor in things. You gotta pass it on.'
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I don't think badly of or oppose having plastic surgery. I once seriously thought of it, but I decided to take my appearance as it is.
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If you're taking an antidepressant, it's working, and you're not experiencing side effects, go on taking it. But if it's not working, or not working well enough, or if you have side effects you don't like, talk to your doctor about an alternative approach.
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When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.
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Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.
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I started styling people when I was just eight years old, without even knowing what a stylist was.
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I like surprising my audiences, and it's compulsory to have fun and be silly; I never take myself quite too seriously.
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I don't need to be a frontman all the time, and in fact, the older I get, the less of an urge it is inside me to play that role. I've still got it inside me, and I do occasionally allow it out.
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A novel and its writer are inseparable: you are your books. A play's not like that at all. 'Abandonment's not mine - it's everyone's. I wanted it to be a co-operative thing because I was tired of that anal control that I have over novels.
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Everyone will someday be judged for what they do, and Jah is the only judge.
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The fact is fiction is always a representation of life, sometimes the lives of famous people.
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The Christian market has less competition and lower standards.
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The perpetrators of the actual bad stuff that does real and lasting harm to people, like leakage of industrial chemicals into water systems, seem to get not so much as a second glance; the bloviation from media pundits and think tanks creates false problems that waste time and energy debunking.
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Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.
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The worst part about ALS is that one day, you're able to brush your teeth; then you'll never be able to brush your teeth again. One day, you're able to walk - you're never going to walk again.
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I have known a lot of people to go down and out - they kill themselves with alcohol or downers. But I've never known anybody to go up and out.
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The trouble with a lot of people who try to write is they intellectualize about it. That comes after. The intellect is given to us by God to test things once they’re done, not to worry about things ahead of time.
