Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.
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I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of texts. And I can voice-text and say whatever I want to people.
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Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.
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When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
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Like its Senate counterpart, H.R. 1908 is the product of years of bipartisan collaboration. And now, by passing S. 1145, the U.S. Senate has a similar opportunity to restore our patent regime to its rightful position of protecting inventors' property rights and spurring innovation. These are values that all Americans should rally behind.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
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Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.
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The pleasure from acting comes from having great writing to work with. If it's well written and the character is interesting, then, as an actor, that's the raw material I need.
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You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.
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I used to be able to eat and drink whatever I wanted. But now, when I'm in a suit and tie all the time, sitting and being driven, you can just feel your body.
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It would have been easy for me to bring out a real cheesy pop song, but 'Please Don't Let Me Go' isn't your typical 'X Factor' single, and it's a grower, not a shower.
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There's a huge part of me that's thinking about perfection. I have to fight that urge, to try to live in the moment, reach for something that I might be hearing, and not second-guess myself.
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If people are able to run the affairs of a village well, eventually they'll be able to run a township, and a county.
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People don't want to embrace culture shifts because it's not going to happen in the next 20 minutes.
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The red carpet is not something I really know how to work. It intimidates me. I feel very tiny.
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It might sound odd, but filming a soap is closer to acting in a play than filming episodic television.
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Since retiring from the FBI in 2007, I've traveled the world and worked with everyone from CEOs to their managers and everyday workers on how to apply techniques from hundreds of high-stakes, life-or-death negotiations to business negotiations.
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I love to look at physically beautiful people, and obviously others do, too. But there's such a narrow definition of what that is; the people who are my friends in life, the more I get to know them over the years, the more beautiful they are to me.
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As I write, I am struggling with the ghost of someone I loved and lost. I now understand more fully the difficulties you were going through, and I realize how painful it must have been for you to move on.
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When I was living in Mexico and writing a book called 'Aztec,' I had to make a deliberate effort to ignore a lot of the 'typically Mexican landscape' around me - banana and citrus groves, roses and carnations, burros and toros - because they did not exist in Mexico in the 15th century, the time of my book.
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I'm crazy, and I don't pretend to be anything else.
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Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.
