Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is a depiction of the real. Fantasy is a depiction of the unreal.
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I love to cook. I could never give that up.
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I enjoy building more than managing.
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During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.
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If you want the Migos to come to your venue, you need to have security there because of the type of music we're rappin'. We get fans excited.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.
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Trends come and go, and style evolves. It's important to have pieces of jewelry that are timeless and look chic despite ever-changing fashions.
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I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.
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'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism.
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At school I used to avoid dance lessons. They were the worst.
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My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.
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I always wanted to be an actor.
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But in order for anyone to become successful, sometimes you have to be that driven and focused, and maybe there isn't a lot left over for personal relationships - although I certainly have had them. It's not as if I cut myself off, but it makes them very difficult. This profession is very hard on relationships.
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He wanted to be who he was, not the person he would become if he lost the one trait that distinguished him from everybody else, no matter how perverse that decision seemed to others.
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The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users.
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He is no longer a city dweller who has even once in his life caught a ruff or seen how, on clear and cool autumn days, flocks of migrating thrushes drift over a village. Until his death he will be drawn to freedom.
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I don't really have a three-year plan or a five-year plan. I don't know what's next, and that's what I find quite exciting. I dig it.
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You can sometimes learn more working with less talented people, because you learn to survive.
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I will make a general statement that we have not had anything like the policy of holding people in high office responsible for their acts that I think we should.
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When you talk to a Republican, many of them just outright say, 'Yeah. Climate change isn't real,' without assessing the facts, and it's a big problem. It's not a red or blue issue, it's a green issue... Not because of facts or science but because of emotion.
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I think that one of the visions that is closest to reality is the cardboard city in the subway station in Tokyo, which is based very closely on a series of documentary photographs of people living like that and of the contents of the boxes. Those are quite haunting because Tokyo homeless people reiterate the whole nature of living in Tokyo in these cardboard boxes, they're only slightly smaller than Tokyo apartments, and they have almost as many consumer goods. It's a nightmare of boxes within boxes.
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It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
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Smart, sustainable, inclusive growth is the key to job-creation and the future prosperity of Europe.
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I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is a depiction of the real. Fantasy is a depiction of the unreal.
