Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

I discovered very early on that if you wanted a thing, you went for it - and you got it. Most people never go anywhere, or want anything - so they never get anything.

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• I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.

  

  Owen Paterson
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• In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.

  

  Mahershala Ali
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• I'm such a fan of Shailene Woodley, so I'm super excited to see all her stuff. She's an awesome actress.

  

  Zoey Deutch
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• My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
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• As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
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• I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

  

  Madeleine Albright
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• The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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• The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
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• When you do take the home pregnancy test, it doesn't quite seem real. But when you see the baby and the heartbeat on the ultrasound, it's so incredible.

  

  Danica McKellar
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• Our comedies are not to be laughed at.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
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• We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.

  

  T. D. Jakes
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• In Mexico, you have to defend yourself and your honour.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
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• In 1960, only sixteen million Americans did not trace their ancestors to Europe. Today, the number is eighty million. No nation has ever undergone so rapid and radical a transformation.

  

  Pat Buchanan
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• Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody gets screwed.

  

  Larry Wall
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• I don't feel like I need a break from the theater, ever.

  

  Katie Finneran

• It's a pleasure to play my sister because everything I've accused her of my whole life, I can now re-enact before her eyes.

  

  Chelsea Handler
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• Lyrically, I could be so much sharper. Melodically, I could be so much stickier. Musically, I could have so much more texture. So I'm constantly doing that, trying to find new ways to mix things up.

  

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• I can't get caught up in the negative because that destroys you.

  

  Jenni Rivera
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• For the first time in history, we declared war without financing it. Americans have not been asked to pay for it through taxes.

  

  David Broder
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• I wrote 'The Room', 'The Birthday Party', and 'The Dumb Waiter' in 1957, I was acting all the time in a repertory company, doing all kinds of jobs, traveling to Bournemouth and Torquay and Birmingham.

  

  Harold Pinter
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• [I'm often called a Deviant Calvinist] but that only goes to underline the point I'm trying to make about the need to broaden our account of the tradition!

  

  Oliver D. Crisp
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• My sole aim is to leave everything in suspension, in flux, in order to avoid our community solidifying into a conventional academy. Our initial resources may be few, but our spirits are high, receptive, and excited, and that seems to me to be the most important thing right now.

  

  Walter Gropius
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• I discovered very early on that if you wanted a thing, you went for it - and you got it. Most people never go anywhere, or want anything - so they never get anything.

  

  Ray Bradbury
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