Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
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I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
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I don't want to be polite. I don't think campaigning is polite. That's a disingenuous effort.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.
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I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.
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What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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You in Lebanon, your power is no match to Israel. Israel, militarily, is more powerful than you and maybe it is more powerful than all the Arab countries, or most of them.
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In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.
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Pretty much everyone on my iPod, I'd like to be friends with. But I'd say that the main two that I'd love to get into a conversation with are Werner Herzog and Graham Hancock.
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Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.
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I understand that the end does not justify the means. And this should be a lasting value for democracy.
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I think I'll die underrated, but it's alright, man.
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I think the merging of high and low culture is so fascinating.
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I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
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Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs.
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Strangely, charity sometimes gets dismissed, as if it is ineffective, inappropriate or even somehow demeaning to the recipient. 'This isn't charity,' some donors take pains to claim, 'This is an investment.' Let us recognize charity for what it is at heart: a noble enterprise aimed at bettering the human condition.
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What do you do, go around trying everything once?' he asked. 'Sometimes twice.
