Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
These are all novels, all about people that never existed, the people that read them it makes them unhappy with their own lives. Makes them want to live in other ways they can never really be.
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
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I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.
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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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Alanis Morissette - I love how she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. Love it or hate it, she's going to say it. And her vocals are crazy; they're amazing, and I also love how her music is really organic.
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Film has always been where my heart is.
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I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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MusiCares was really good to me. I can't say enough how MusiCares helps other people. They really, really helped me. They have the greatest groups and support for musicians in recovery.
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I really have a passion for food. Of course, music, but behind that, it's food.
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Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
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I think they do a great job on Queer as Folk.
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It would be a great adventure for Leicester to be in the Champions League.
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I met a number of young, striving, enterprising people in cities like Aligarh and Hubli. But the mental landscape of these towns is out of sync with their reality. Many of these towns are hellholes.
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I've definitely accepted the fact that I'm not normal.
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Three years ago the Government announced the creation of Reconciliation Place, and said that it would include a memorial to those removed from their families. However, they refused to include any of those who were removed in the design of their own memorial.
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I believe that there will be women astronauts sometime just as there are women airplane pilots.
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Elvis is symbolic of a lot of things, dreams coming true being one of them.
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I wanted to draw and do costumes. I was prepared to train for that, but I needed something to do on my time off from high school, so I called an agent without telling anyone and started working with her.
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The assistants, the managers, the PR, the person whose coordinating, the person in production - those are the people I loved communicating with and building network relationships with.
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If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God.
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I was pretty strict in high school about who I would listen to. Musicians like Neil Young, Cat Stevens, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell... who were, in my opinion, great writers. The music mattered, but it held hands with the lyrics, and the personality was, overall, unsullied.
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I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made. Almost no new classics resemble other previous classics. At first people see only the awkwardness. Then they are not so perceptible. When they show so very awkwardly people think these awkwardnesses are the style and many copy them. This is regrettable.
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These are all novels, all about people that never existed, the people that read them it makes them unhappy with their own lives. Makes them want to live in other ways they can never really be.
