Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
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I'm very heterosexual, so dating women is something I'm not ashamed of. But my love life is not as exciting as it is reported to be.
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I'm a giant Beatles fan.
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Family is extremely important, and home is wherever they're waiting for you. No matter where you are, if you have great support, that's all that matters.
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I wrote my first play as extra credit for my fourth grade English class. 'Can Helen Stop Smoking' was a satire on the ill effects of cigarette smoking. My friend Vicki Haugabrook played as Helen and I directed the show. At the time, my brother Vince was leading the campaign to get our grandmother to quit.
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My curiosity sister of larks.
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Anna accumulated things as a way of insulating herself against her own thoughts.
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He adjudicated the case in a manner I still find perplexing, but which must have been equitable, since it pleased no one.
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'They say the church spire interferes with their bloody television reception.'
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Movement will fail sooner than usefulness.
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Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories... We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that's out there.
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I came into this environment where there was so much love, so much positive energy. I never heard my parents say, 'We have adopted kids.' The minute my sister Linda and I landed in Sweden, we were their kids.
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I never think about losing. That's why it's so hard to accept a loss.
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The challenge has been, we make policy in the world of politics.
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Language is my bugbear. Everyone says things now like 'I was sat' instead of 'I was sitting', which just sounds so ugly.
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You wouldn't think it would but my parents were really balanced about that. When it came time for me to be out of the house and out on my own they were very supportive.
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Sometimes people think I'm sort of a Machiavelli who is thinking, 'How can I disarm people? I know: I'll create a persona; I'll get some spectacles, and when I meet you, I'll say, 'How are you doing?' And I will be very unassuming and polite and never get angry.'
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When you find a way to be really receptive to your child's needs and really listen, you can be more open to what they say they want or what they say they need.
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Cynics will say there are no good people out there. And if you read the papers and watch TV news you could be convinced of that. But there are good people.
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Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another.
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A lot of people say, 'Oh, playing backup quarterback, that's the best position in the world.' Well, what they don't understand is when we leave the building at 5 o'clock on Wednesday or Thursday when practice wraps up, we still need to go home and study and prepare just like you're the starter.
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Poetry is the voice of the soul, whispering, celebrating, singing, even.
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I think probably my main advice to new artists is if you want to be in the music business, you need to be dang serious about it because it's a rough business.
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I believe unless we have ambition to accomplish things and to do things that we amount to but very little in the battle of life.
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Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents.
