Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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As a gay person, my life has been marginalized.
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I'm a pretty cliche actor in that I hate watching myself on film.
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I think you've got to play the hand that you're dealt and stop wishing for another hand.
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Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.
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But, perhaps, the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in few words.
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For dhrames always go by conthraries, my dear.
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During one scene, I had to do a shooting drill. He put a psychological spin on it.
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Everybody knows the mother-daughter relationship is one of the most complex there is.
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More people need to understand the games secular liberals play. Here's one rule-of-thumb: No matter how bad a story sounds - particularly if it sounds bad - recognize the pattern of defamation.
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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I was woundering what he would say, what word could sum me up right then, when i saw the lights come across his face, blaringly yellow, and suddenly he was brighter, and brighter, and i asked him what was happening, what was wrong. I remember only that light, so strong it spilled across my shoulders, and lit up his face, and how scared he looked as something big and loud hit my door, sending glass shattering across me, little sparks catching the light like diamonds, as they fell, with me, into the dark.
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Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them.
