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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I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.
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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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I'm a little angry in life.
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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
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I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.
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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 had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
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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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Yeah, I'm very impressed with Lifetime, this is the first time I've worked with them. I really like the kind of programming that they're into, so I'm hoping that I will.
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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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What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.
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I can create for others.
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A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
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They aren't interested in the fact that whenever they kick up dirt, the dirt rubs off on every one of us.
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Independent film is for actors that love to act.
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The true seeker hunts naught but the object of his quest, and the lover has no desire save union with his Beloved.
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In my final year at Bristol University, I wrote a play called 'White Feathers.' It was produced in the studio theatre at the students' union in early 1999, when I was 21. It's 100 pages long: a very traditional play, with an interval, about deserters in the First World War.
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I wish I was one of those persnickety types who buys guidebooks and studies them, but I don't have the inclination or time. I'm more of a 'get on the plane, arrive at the destination and see what happens' kind of traveler.
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Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else.
