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've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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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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I never left a team in worse shape than I got it. Not once.
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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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I hate morning workout; I'm a night person more. But it's good to work out in the mornings because then you can have all day free.
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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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Rules for Axioms. I. Not to omit any necessary principle without asking whether it is admittied, however clear and evident it may be. II. Not to demand, in axioms, any but things that are perfectly evident in themselves.
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Be careful about the advice you give, especially to your children.
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Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.
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It is a mistake to separate learning for work and for community and personal development.
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In a crisis, don't hide behind anything or anybody. They're going to find you anyway.
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I've heard 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe's pen hasn't begun to paint what slavery is as I have seen it at the far South. I've seen de real thing, and I don't want to see it on no stage or in no theater.
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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.
