Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have loved libraries.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.
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I don't think you can climb Mount Everest with a broken leg, but I did break my leg prior to going to Mount Everest, so I was really climbing with a healing broken leg. I had the good fortune of climbing the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. That was a goal that I had.
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I want people to be able to give their voice.
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I still can't believe that I went on 'The Colbert Report' myself; for the appearance I wore a lot of makeup, my hair was curled like a poodle's, and I could barely breathe in my Spanx undergarments. But, hey - an authoress has to lean in, right?
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If you can find a frock you look nice in and can run up three flights of stairs, you're not fat.
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The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.
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I would like to think that I curse expertly - it's not something that I do without considering it. I never curse without intending to; it's not something I resort to because of inability to articulate or find the correct word.
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To admit error and cut losses is rare among individuals, unknown among states.
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You can't close your eyes to the lies perpetrated by dangerous fools / 'cos they're handing out rules
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My mother was the strong wife, partner, and co-worker Martin Luther King, Jr. needed to be an effective leader, and he said so on many occasions.
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I was born 20 years after my eldest sister. I was the pampered child. That kind of love gives you an almost unbreakable backbone. My mother had three kids before me. She let me be completely free. I just never had anything to beat myself up over.
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The average small-business owner uses 18 apps to run their business every day, and if those applications don't allow data to flow seamlessly and they don't integrate, it's going to become a point of friction. It's going to prevent the small business from being successful.
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The third biggest comic people in America want to make a comic book out of me. It's unbelievable.
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One of the great things about a TV series is that it's different to a movie - in a movie you obviously know the beginning, the middle and the end of what you're going to do. With a TV series it's unfolding, and you're discovering with every episode.
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I wanted to become an actor so I didn't have to put on a suit and sell insurance.
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The 1980s was a time of the great recession of interactive entertainment. When Atari fell in 1982, until Nintendo launched its console, video games were an outcast for five years.
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If you took music out of my life, I don't know what I'd do. It's the one thing that I have a real passion for.
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There is that time right around 30 when you think, your twenties have gone by, and now you really are a grown up, and you do have to figure out what you're going to do.
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Each member of this shadowy network resented the others, who were irritating reminders that nothing was more American, whatever that means, than fleeing the American, whatever that is, and that their soft version of self-imposed exile was just another of late empire's packaged tours.
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I respond very well to rules. If there are certain parameters it's much easier to do something really good. Especially when readers know what those are. They know what to expect and then you have to wrong-foot them. That is the trick of crime fiction. And readers come to crime and graphic novels wanting to be entertained, or disgusted.
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All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.
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Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.
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You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have loved libraries.
