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.
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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.
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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.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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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.
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I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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Our comedies are not to be laughed at.
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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.
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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.
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I don't feel like I need a break from the theater, ever.
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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.
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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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For the first time in history, we declared war without financing it. Americans have not been asked to pay for it through taxes.
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Don't play dead with a vulture. That's exactly what they want.
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Nobody wants to get rid of their life experiences - you are who you are because of them, no matter if they're good or bad.
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I have won trophies around Europe, but never the title. Three times, I was runner-up. Leicester and the fans will be in my heart for all of my life.
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Big sisters exaggerate.
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If you really want something, you've gotta just do it and not wait for other people to hand it to you.
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That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
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That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It's the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think, total involvement and identity and empathy, stopping short of being autobiographical - in my case, anyway - but also quite detached.
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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine.
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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.
