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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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 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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I had to make a major decision with myself because I just don't think you can do both: try to have a baby career and raise it and have a baby baby and raise it. And to try to do justice to either one. It was a very conscious decision on my part not to have children - which I have never regretted.
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It's hysterical how kids have their own personalities, even at like 3 or 4. And, it's funny what they tend to like.
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Aesthetics - rather than reason - shapes our thought processes. First comes aesthetics, then logic. 'Thinking in Numbers' is not about an attempt to impress the reader but to include the reader, draw the reader in, by explaining my experiences - the beauty I feel in a prime number, for example.
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If you're going to be a bum, be the biggest. If you're going to blow it, blow it big.
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Small business owners that are female, that is their number one problem, is access to capital.
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It is never very crowded at the front.
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In my 20s, as I began to travel in Europe, I found comfort in religious paintings. Even though my own belief in Catholic dogma had been shaken and weakened, I found that the beauty and the richness of the art still held me.
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People are building the software and so having the pieces be such that a single person understands all the tradeoffs and everything that's going on in a piece is extremely valuable. It avoids getting into an experimental mode where you're just trying things out. That never works.
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I quite enjoy sport, and I'm now an Olympic champion. It's a bit weird, isn't it?
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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.
