Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
		
	 
	
		
	
	
	
		I'm trying to teach people of all ages to, number one: how to criticize, how to offer creative analysis on top of that, how to try to build things in a new direction and how to compliment people when the thing gets done.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ray Bradbury 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Irwin Shaw 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Imran Khan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ian Mckellen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I would love the opportunity to create my own program. I feel like a TV show with a format of monologue with lots of sketches thrown in could be really fun. But you know, that may never happen. Minimally, I just want to keep making stand-up. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Hari Kondabolu 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I can't be disappointed with my first gold in a senior championship, and to score 5000 points, which only one other woman, the world record holder, has got over, I am satisfied. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Katarina Johnson-Thompson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		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? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Famke Janssen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Laura Linney 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think that what happens for many Christians is, they accept their particular faith, they accept it to be true, and they stop examining it. Consequently, because it's already accepted to be true, they don't examine other people's faiths... That, I think, is not healthy for a person of any faith. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Adam Hamilton 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think that I've had a very strange life. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Joanne Rowling 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		To be able to live and train in Iraq under these circumstances you need to be brave. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dana Hussein 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Sometimes when we label something dystopian fiction, I feel like we're trying very hard not to use the words 'science fiction,' because science fiction has those horrible connotations of rocket ships and bodacious babes. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Paolo Bacigalupi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		This is probably why, my life is easier, and my family is very happy, because we never lie each other. This is probably all people supposed to feel each other, so be always in all of the world they'll be peace. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Olga Korbut 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		I've always been impelled to say the truth. When I was 14, in 1954, I already wrote a gay novel, though I'd never read one. I felt that life handed me a great subject, gay life, that had scarcely been examined, and I was impelled to record it in all its strange detail. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Edmund White 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The truth is I am not a very hands-on political wife; I don't get involved in day-to-day Downing Street life. They don't need me interfering, but in the evening, we will talk about each other's day. I try to stay out of the Westminster village. There are times when I will be surprised and curious about what's been announced. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Samantha Cameron 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Every crowd has a silver lining. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				P. T. Barnum 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Danica McKellar 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rachel Kushner 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		For the first time in 6,000 years of human history, we can have peer-to-peer exchange where trust is not a problem anymore. And it's through the technology that underlies bitcoin. It's called the block chain. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Patrick M. Byrne