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.Ray Bradbury
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I love to cook. I could never give that up.
Kate Winslet -
I enjoy building more than managing.
Wayne Huizenga -
During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.
Jack Davenport -
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.
Quavo Migos -
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.
Karen Elson -
I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.
Patrick Dempsey
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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.
Tariq Ali -
At school I used to avoid dance lessons. They were the worst.
Kate Winslet -
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.
Octavia E. Butler -
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.
Nathan Lane -
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.
Iain Banks -
The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users.
Alberto Manguel
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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.
Anton Chekhov -
You can sometimes learn more working with less talented people, because you learn to survive.
Jacqueline Bisset -
I think what I like best is that when people give talks or workshops, it doesn't really matter what level you are as a writer - whether you are a beginner, or you've been around the block a bit; there's something that you can take away from every session.
Antonya Nelson -
When you're not being heard - I can't tell you what to do when you're not being heard. I do think there is a way to move in love and get things done, though.
Algee Smith -
I would say that normally it is the creative minorities that determine the future, and in this sense, the Catholic Church must understand itself as a creative minority that has a heritage of values that are not things of the past, but a very living and relevant reality.
Pope Benedict XVI -
Perhaps because my town was so naturally gothic in its architecture and relative isolation - the roads often closed in winter - my stories tended toward the ghostly and the creepily suspenseful right from the get-go.
Andrew Pyper
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What are you reading?" Owen asks. "Charlotte's Web," Liz says. "It's really sad. One of the main characters just died." "You ought to read the book from end to beginning," Owen jokes. "That way, no one dies, and it's always a happy ending.
Gabrielle Zevin -
I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.
Wanda Sykes -
Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
Thomas Carlyle -
There was a lot of great writing couples, but I try to do it all myself. And it was practically impossible, but I still managed to be ahead of my time.
Jackie DeShannon -
I did this TV show, which was my first job ever. It wasn't a real acting part. It was like this promo for this sitcom and the main actress was meeting three different real people and then she was going to decide who was going to be on the episode.
Sean William Scott -
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.
Ray Bradbury