Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
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There is always the fear of failure, and if you struggle, you become nervous, and that's when the underdogs have an opportunity to create a surprise.
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Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!
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When I got my Oprah money, the first thing I bought was a really nice electronic bidet toilet seat.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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It's always an honour doing anything for your country.
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I just feel energized when I am around young, talented people. There is something about these kids that's amazing. I learn as much from them as they do from me.
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The truth is, I don't have any problem with journalists - I count some of them as friends - also some of my heroes are journalists, I'm a big fan of Robert Fisk - great people or crazy people who are prepared to stand up for what's right.
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In a cricket career, your life is in some ways controlled for you. You have no control over schedules, you have no control about where you want to play, you don't have control over that as a cricketer.
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We have to be careful because if one day the world is short of energy, it will be our responsibility. Everybody will ask Total, 'Why don't you have more oil?'
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Our family brings a different amount of - not fame - attention.
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I never went on an audition - when they were really looking at everybody.
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For 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona,' for example, Woody Allen is one of the greatest American directors, and we really had a very good working relationship. We understand each other really well. He gave me one of the best opportunities somebody has ever given me in my career.
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Through these adversities, Israel has endured with continued strength, conviction, and faith.
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Family has always been very important to my life. Even though I make my living as an artist, my creativity is merely a fantasy world. Having a close family has been a stabilizing rock for me.
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Even before the earthquake in Haiti, only half the country's population had a source of safe drinking water.
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The history of Montana has been of the government giving land grants to people that could not possibly turn it into decent farms. And that's destroying their lives. So they don't see the government as something that's out there to help them.
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You want to be paid in respect to how your peers are paid.
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Charts and learning the politics behind making a record - it's pretty soulless.
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I like to have glasses for day and night.
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We were honest with each other and we were honest about the music. The music was positive. It was positive in love. They did write – we all wrote – about other things, but the basic Beatles message was Love.
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If it's a drama or comedy, it doesn't matter to me. I just want to like the writing.
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I think for me, wearing the helmet and being part of the Stormtroopers felt so strange. Like, so this is what it feels like to just be one of the many. And to look the same, and to have to do the same thing. To be under the same orders. This is what it feels like.
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You fail only if you stop writing.
