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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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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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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The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility.
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I'm really eager to go back and do some theater. I would love to do some more comedy as well because I think that's really the hardest thing to do; it's what I grew up doing, and I would love to go back and do that. I did a lot of theater growing up - musical theater.
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Women have full equality with men before the Lord. By nature, the roles of women differ from those of men. This knowledge has come to us with the Restoration of the gospel in the fullness of times, with an acknowledgment that women are endowed with the great responsibilities of motherhood and nurturing.
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People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable.
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It's a roll of the dice when you're a first time director so I prefer to work with people that know more than I do, but that happens less and less as you get older.
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I didn't think I was an actor and fought it for a long time. Nobody paid for that but me.
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No one is discontented at not being a king except a discrowned king ... unhappiness almost invariably indicates the existence of a road not taken, a talent undeveloped, a self not recognized.
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Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else.
