Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his sense, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events.
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I think acting, for me, is about play. It's about time, and it's about feeling, like there's a story to tell and I can tell it through my body and my voice.
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It's pretty much run by everybody. We're very involved in everything that goes on. We always have been.
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The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political content of the film. I wanted to show how devastating class distinction could be.
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Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room.
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I've always been working just to be a world champion and it's a dream come true.
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People in Tulsa are totally friendly; the crowds are very nice.
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Apartheid either is or is not. And it must not be.
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A nascent economy needs a transparent and accountable government and an efficient civil service to help meet social needs. Its people need jobs and a belief in their country's future. A surfeit of aid has been shown to be unable to help achieve these goals.
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We need the humbleness and clarity to see that our food, while benefitting from technological advances, has benefitted even more from free ecological resources: Cheap energy, lots of water everywhere, and a stable climate.
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It's harder for me to relate to people who don't have families that are loud and crazy.
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I'm embracing many different things, but it's all feel-good.
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You enjoy being put in that position. You want to be in that position. As a kid you always think about making big shots to win a game or send a game into overtime. Even to this day, I still have dreams like that.
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It will take at least one week for the Justice Department to arrive at a final conclusion on this matter. Therefore, the committee does not anticipate taking any actions with respect to Mrs. Rich for at least one week.
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The revolution starts at the bottom.
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Manufacturers and sellers acting within the law should not be held responsible for the actions of criminals who misuse their products.
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If God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving the things for which I ask, then He will give them, but that is not the end of prayer. The end of prayer is that I come to know God Himself.
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I'm as vain as everybody else, but if I see a mirror I have to look at myself.
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To be happy is not only to be freed from the pains and diseases of the body, but from anxiety and vexation of spirit; not only to enjoy the pleasures of sense, but peace of conscience and tranquillity of mind.
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There's a difference between standing up and telling people what you're planning to do and standing up and going and accomplishing something.
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We definitely made more plays than they did. We accepted the pressure. This was a bump in the road for us.
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When I wrote for Jordan Knight, I was 17 or 18, they were pretty much the only songs I was writing. By the time people like Christina or Usher came around, I was able to know that I was writing for different points of view and people that might not want to say certain things. So you have to be considerate of whichever artist you're writing for.
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A US Department of Education; implementation of a scientific materialist philosophy; studies, being cleansed of religious, patriotic and other features of the bourgeois ideology; students taught on the basis of Marxian dialectical materialism, internationalism and general ethics of a new socialist society; present obsolete methods of teaching will be superseded by a scientific pedagogy. The whole basis and organization of capitalist science will be revolutionized. Science will become materialistic, hence truly scientific. God will be banished from the laboratories as well as from the schools.
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The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his sense, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events.
