Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.
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I've always liked street lights, and I've always photographed them. I probably have a collection of two to three thousand photographs of them, just around the city, mainly at night.
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You don't have to paint your walls lime green just to try to have your home feel decorated. If you're a classic dresser or preppy dresser or a modern dresser, you wear a lot of black - whatever it is - your home should reflect that as well.
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My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days.
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That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.
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Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to express in order to be complete, so it often happens that the building to a big crescendo feels right in the recording or writing process.
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I think there's a tendency to think geeks and nerds are just sweet guys that were picked on, but that hasn't been my experience. I'm certainly not like that, in a lot of ways.
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I don't see why OPEC countries should continue to cut production just to keep the price of oil high. This will not affect the industrial countries alone, it will also hit poor countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Who will look after them?
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My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
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Being inspired is one thing, but completely knocking off a design is another. There is a big difference.
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If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.
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If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
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I think the world is crumbling when I have a bad game.
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The soldiers that didn't come back were the heroes. It's a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it, you're a hero. If you hear a bullet go by, you're a survivor.
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I think the thing I've always tried to do is - and I didn't plan it, it just started to come out that way - is try to make challenging music that flirts with accessibility.
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The crisis of the fisheries is similar to our economy. This is not one fishery failing, but the whole system.
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I just found over the years that it's very hard to change people's perception of what it is that you do.
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The process and organization leading up to cooking the egg can tell you a lot about the cook.
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Will I be a success? I don't know.
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The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.
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There's always a concern when you play the week before a major. That's not the easiest time for a scheduler or a promoter, I would think.
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Good taste has everything to do with being cultured and being refined, and if art has to do with anything, it has to do with being human.
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I mean, I'm very serious with my kids about them comprehending the intricacies of global finance.
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Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.
