Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
My characters talk to one another, and when it reaches a certain pitch of excitement I jump out of bed and run and trap them before they are gone.
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
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I never feel there's anything I can't do.
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During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.
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The deadpan brilliance of John McCrea has been underrepresented in music since 2004, when Cake served up 'Pressure Chief.'
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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
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Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.
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If you never know hardship, you can't really support people around you.
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I look more to the future. That's where my head is at.
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I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.'
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How dull it is to have people defining you.
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It's so funny, I've done so many projects where I've been interrogated. I guest starred on almost every hour drama, and I'm always the guy they think is the bad guy but then they find out is not.
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My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.
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Our world is increasingly interdependent and pluralistic, and in order to ensure a civil future, we must get to know one another.
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I was imprisoned in the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 attacks, when Egypt's state security was rounding people up in unprecedented numbers.
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Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.
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We had a tiny budget for 'The Greatest,' which was the opposite of 'Wall Street.' We just kind of went in and did it. You've got four or five takes and then you've got to move on. We didn't even have trailers to stay in or anything.
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I did most of my schooling in Miami.
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It's truly disheartening to me to see so many beautiful women who have no idea what their potential is.
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Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists.
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Whether youre president or speaker, if youre wrong, we need to stand up and point it out. Thats what Martin Luther King had talked about: being judged by the content of our character and not the color of our skin. So some of us pounded away on some of the ridiculous policies of Pelosi - and lo and behold, over time, the public began to see.
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As a kid, I wanted to be the person running from the monster. I also wanted to be the person saving people from the monster. I wanted to be a superhero.
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Through my travels, I find inspiration in street style and how young women create their individual looks and identity.
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My characters talk to one another, and when it reaches a certain pitch of excitement I jump out of bed and run and trap them before they are gone.
