Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
Screenplays are not writing. They're a fake form of writing. It's a lot of dialogue and very little atmosphere. Very little description. Very little character work. It's very dangerous. You'll never learn to write.Ray Bradbury
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
Jack Youngblood -
I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
Harrison Birtwistle -
If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
I also love the zombie genre, my zombie fandom going way back to 'Night of the Living Dead.' And 'The Walking Dead' is truly the ultimate representation of that sensibility in the comic book genre.
Gale Anne Hurd -
Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
Karl Amadeus Hartmann -
A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.
Laura Bush
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I've decided to recast myself as Utopian. I like this landscape of the M25 and Heathrow. I like airfreight offices and rent-a-car bureaus. I like dual carriageways. When I see a CCTV camera, I know I'm safe.
J. G. Ballard -
A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is torn; he lives on two streets with three languages. It is a misfortune to live on this sort of 'border,' and that is what I have experienced.
S. Ansky -
Because I was always a fat child, I got fatter and fatter, and I ended up 18 stone and with a 40-inch waist.
Rafe Spall -
You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.
AJ McLean -
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
Oprah Winfrey -
Everything that is bad, the falling sickness - God save the mark - or the like, should be at its worst at the full moon. I suppose because it is the leader of the stars.
Lady Gregory
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Sometimes in the middle of the night, I wake up with a song in my head, and I have to finish it so I can fall back asleep.
Aaron Neville -
I would like to think that I curse expertly - it's not something that I do without considering it. I never curse without intending to; it's not something I resort to because of inability to articulate or find the correct word.
Adam Mansbach -
Memory, out of the mist, in a long slow rippleBreaks, blindly, against the shore.
Alfred Noyes -
Let's all strive to be more entrepreneurial, and I think we'll all be in a better place.
Alexis Ohanian -
They greatly respected scholarship in itself, but they also impressed upon us that there were great opportunities available for those who were well educated. I received my primary and secondary education in Chicago.
Jerome Isaac Friedman -
I'll get a three-page letter and the last paragraph says 'I know you'll never read this, but here's my number.' I love to call those people because the first thing they say is, 'Governor, I didn't mean everything I said in the letter about you.'
Dave Heineman
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As an actress I find the most enjoyable part of acting is really just to please the director. I just want to please my director.
Joan Chen -
Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought.
Victor Hugo -
I greatly appreciate being asked to be part of President-elect Trump's team and I will continue to enthusiastically support him and his agenda for American renewal.
Betsy DeVos -
He who only does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born imperfect. It is a misfortune not unlike blindness.
Henry Ward Beecher -
Ultimately, for me, I had an underlying belief or fear that I'm not enough as I am. Sometimes I discover those kinds of thoughts still lurking in my subconscious, and the best thing I can do is show up anyway.
Karla Cheatham Mosley -
Screenplays are not writing. They're a fake form of writing. It's a lot of dialogue and very little atmosphere. Very little description. Very little character work. It's very dangerous. You'll never learn to write.
Ray Bradbury