Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.
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Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
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Today, more than ever, citizens demand with good reason that moral and ethical principles be upheld and that exemplariness preside over our public life. And the king, as the head of state, must not only be an example but also a servant to that just and legitimate demand of the citizens.
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Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.
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My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.
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I stopped watching horror movies after I watched 'Candyman' when I was – I don't know, fifteen or something. I remember my sister rented it, 'Candyman,' and it really, really scared me. And so it was only after I found myself in a horror film that I really went back and kind of rediscovered the genre.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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If there really is a God, then he really looks after me.
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I think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years.
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I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at it.
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I've been around the track a lot. I've had the best of the years, and I don't want a single year back.
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I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.
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No one in my family is in entertainment. They thought acting was a fun hobby, and when I got a degree, I'd settle down.
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A woman in show business isn't honest with herself... so how can she be honest with another woman? We are, all of us, acting every minute of the day and night.
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I'm fascinated by male vulnerability.
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I think the idea of participation trophies has gotta be a really, really great thing. Kids are under enough pressure as it is without encouraging them to be the best too early.
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There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan.
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A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.
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Wherever I've been, I've left people who joined Hizb ut-Tahrir. I have to make amends. What I did was damaging to British society and the world at large.
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The player who expects a lesson to 'take' without subsequent practice just isn't being honest with himself or fair to his professional.
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I initially wanted to work in the music industry more on the A&R side. While I was in school, I began working in the New Business department of an advertising firm, and very quickly I was responsible for roughly 70% of their business, so you could say I had a natural knack for the advertising world.
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When you have a good idea, the money flows.
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Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger, I never wrote a word of dialogue because of him. I thought it was a childish part of a novel.
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You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.
