Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
You can't learn to write that way - by writing directly for the screen. Wait until you're 30. But in the meantime write 200 short stories. You've got to learn how to write!
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I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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I'm curvy.
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I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
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Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.
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I will tell you that when I was heavy, people would say to me – and it was such a backhanded compliment – they would say, 'You've got such a beautiful face,' in the way of, like, 'Oh, isn't it a shame that from the neck down you're questionable.'
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You cannot be seeking yourself when you're making money.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.
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I am not trying to conform to an unrealistic model of beauty. I am, however, being proactive in being the healthiest I can be.
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You have to be aware. Like, I'm not going to do any downhill skiing. It looks like a whole lot of fun, but I'm not going to risk breaking a leg. I want to be dancing the way I'm dancing now for 30 more years.
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I started making music videos in my twenties and made my first feature, 'Guncrazy,' at 29. I then spent the greater part of my thirties directing features.
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Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
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I like to run a lot. I play tennis, and I like doing outdoorsy stuff - fishing, canoeing.
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There is no life without sport and no sport without competition.
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At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.
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I don't really listen to bassists - not anymore. When I was younger, I listened to those guys and was trying to figure out everything they did. Nowadays, I draw inspiration from everybody.
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Redeemed how I love to proclaim it. Redeemed by the blood of the Lamb. Redeemed thru His infinite mercy His child and forever I am.
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Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
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When the label came to me to say, 'would you like to do another record,' I said, 'Well I got these sixteen songs sitting here, so let's do it.' And that was pretty much it... I never stopped writing, it's just the way that the business is now; you just try to find a different model.
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When you are convinced that everything that happens is the will of God, what is there to do but wait until God has mercy?
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The question is the morning after. What sort of Iraq do we wake up to after the bombing? What happens in the region? What impact could it have? These are questions leaders I have spoken to have posed.
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You can't learn to write that way - by writing directly for the screen. Wait until you're 30. But in the meantime write 200 short stories. You've got to learn how to write!
