Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
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I do all of my good thinking at over 65 miles per hour. The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed as my brainstorming speed.
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The mandate we have as Jews is for the story of the Exodus from Egypt to be retold every generation.
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Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
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There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care.
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In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.
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There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.
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I wouldn't call myself religious. I'm spiritual. Everybody's a bit more so as you get older. I'm a cultural Catholic; it's inescapable, but I think I have to believe.
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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
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Annie Lee Moss was a black woman who worked for the Army as a code clerk in the Pentagon. She was identified by an undercover agent of the FBI as a member of the Communist Party. Moss denied it, the Democrats sprang to her defense, and she has been treated ever since as an innocent victim of McCarthy.
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For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.
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In the midst of the heartbreak and wreckage of 9-11, the world also witnessed what is America's greatest strength. Firefighters, nurses, police officers, first responders and local residents worked around the clock to rescue and care for those injured.
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Since President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act in 1963, the gap between men and women's earnings has narrowed by less than a half-cent per year. At this rate, American women will have to wait until 2062 to bring home the same salary as their male counterparts.
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There is no global warming problem, there isn't going to be a global warming problem. Sit back and enjoy the sunshine.
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Fellini was a little lofty for a teenage boy, but certainly he was a huge influence.
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I need to be able to rock out.
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You don't have anything if you don't have the stories.
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Stop the traffic...let 'em through.
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If you ask me, the place that a story happens is as equal character. It's almost like an ecological viewpoint: These people are living in this piece of land, and in this piece of land in this time this is possible. For me, I almost think location first. It's time first - what year is it - then where are we, and then who is in it.
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Good stories must travel through conflict. And in epic stories, the conflict must become unbearable.
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Sam Walton was a master storyteller who used illustrative stories to reinforce his cultural standards.
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That's the strange thing about a good story. No pleasure if you can't share it.
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Most of my short stories are fantasy.
