Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
I don't believe in government. I hate politics. I'm against it. And I hope that sometime this fall, we can destroy part of our government, and next year destroy even more of it. The less government, the happier I will be.
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I think I've gotten more confident because the more you do it and the more shows you play, you just feel more confident. You feel more confident about everything.
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I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
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My parents had a house on the Jersey shore - I grew up right there, going down there every summer and living there. It is home for me.
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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Ironically, I'm a really crap liar, even though I do it for a living. I give away too much, somehow. I can't lie!
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Death, only, renders hope futile.
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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It's great living with your best friends.
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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
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As a teenager, I preferred the company of boys to girls, focusing always on the most indifferent male and flirting with him until he became my slave.
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I like to show that I'm real.
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I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.
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It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny.
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I just talk a lot, that's the problem.
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People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
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The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep it out of their poems because they're afraid of being seen as light versifiers.
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Doing TV is great, but TV is for starring on, not for watching.
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No doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being ridiculous. Imagine Jimmy Carter or George W. Bush rising to the top of any other profession.
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We have to all come together and create unity out of diversity that the destiny that we build will be one that is right not just for now but for generations to come.
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You know to me, being a good actor, the most important quality is you've got to love to play, and to just be open to anything.
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I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
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Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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I don't believe in government. I hate politics. I'm against it. And I hope that sometime this fall, we can destroy part of our government, and next year destroy even more of it. The less government, the happier I will be.
