Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
Not to write, for many of us, is to die. We must take ares each and every day, perhaps knowing that the battle cannot be entirely won, but fight we must, if only a gentle bout. The smallest effort to win means, at the end of each day, a sort of victory.
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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I don't know what's on the other side.
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I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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I try to have fun with the fans, try to have fun.
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Whenever I write a new song, it always happens when I come back from Europe or Egypt or something like that. It's always from travelling.
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This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
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I've had to work by myself at combines before and forced myself to work out alone all the way back to high school. You have to be self-motivated.
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If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.
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I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.
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I never try to be the poster child for the perfect mother/wife... You prioritize, you do the best you can possibly do, and you don't beat yourself up.
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You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.
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I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.
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I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.
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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
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There were a lot of times I wondered if I was deluding myself. I had nothing else to fall back on, but I never enjoyed anything else.
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Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.
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The only way we'll know where we're going is to look at the past and to remember who we were through ceremonies and rituals.
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We had a one bedroom, one bathroom, one closet apartment with four girls.
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Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from falling hands we throw.
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I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story.
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I never know the endings when I write. It's a turnoff when you know the ending. You lose much of your incentive to write when you already know. It's like seeing a movie a second time.
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I think my parents raised me well. And I'm pretty straight edge. All my friends make fun of me for being straight edge.
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Not to write, for many of us, is to die. We must take ares each and every day, perhaps knowing that the battle cannot be entirely won, but fight we must, if only a gentle bout. The smallest effort to win means, at the end of each day, a sort of victory.
