Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
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When you start writing songs on your own, there's no Bible, there's no one around you, so you're just writing, and you're left with, like, the dead space in your head to know if it's a good song or an interesting concept.
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
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One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It's inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
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The best teachers that I had were always the ones I never wanted to disappoint.
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To be honest, I owned one suit before I filmed 'Mad Men' - the one suit that you have to have as an adult. Outside of that, I never really felt comfortable in a suit.
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The way to compose for me is to have lots of time.
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It will work. I am a marketing genius.
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Hunter Thompson wasn't Joseph Conrad, Jimmy Carter wasn't Harry Trueman. But strangely, Richard Nixon was Richard Nixon. I'm no Pablo Picasso but there's no harm in straining. After all, the charm of any activity is in the trying and so rarely in the finished article.
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Ah wonder if anybody this side of the Atlantic has ever bought a baseball bat with playing baseball in mind.
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Me and Jesus are cool. I'm cool with all the gods. Gods recognize gods.
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I enjoyed the whole process of learning and was always happy when autumn came and school or college started up again.
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Usually for the tour, there's about 80 songs in our brain.
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I still love finding the soul of the characters I play and defining who they are. This to me is my paint set, and the colors are always exciting to choose.
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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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The most important thing is the fact we have created this successful and sustainable Ford Motor Co. worldwide. I have no regrets.
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I was utterly without worldly ambition because I knew that all that was needed for a rich, full life was a few shillings a week with which to buy SF magazines and beer.
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By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route of passion may be opened up new relationships between a man and men, and between men and Man. Drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us to know more, and not merely to spend our feelings.
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My parents always told me that if you want something, you can do whatever you have to do to get it. As long as it's not against someone else.
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If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie.
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Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else.
