Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
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May the soul of the late President Milton Obote... a long-time member of this parliament, rest in peace.
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I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
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Nothing is unfilmable.
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Love should be an inspiration, not an obligation.
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I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.
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I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.
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I am always locked in my design studio.
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The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.
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Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I think when you see 'Ridiculous Six,' the show speaks for itself in terms of its treatment of American Indians.
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I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.
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I could live in a sari; I was born to wear a sari.
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I still have in me the same awareness when I was 12 and chubby and a girl was spitting in my face. I'm the same person.
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For singers, I believe we can sing in a lot of keys. I know I have this big range, but the point is to find a key that emotionally connects people.
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It can't be any simpler: the farewell is going to be on the Champs-Elysees.
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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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I used to think romantic love was a neurosis shared by two, a supreme foolishness. I no longer think that. There's nothing foolish in loving anyone. Thinking you'll be loved in return is what's foolish.
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I remember, when I was doing 'Nicholas Nickleby', James Archer came to see me at the interval and said, 'My father would like to see you after the show.' It felt rather as if I had been summoned by the Queen, and I was cocky enough to think, 'Who the hell is he to summon me?'
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You have to like the characters you play.
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In real life, I have mostly gone for nice guys. I definitely had a phase where I was like, "Oh, the bad guy is really cool." It's fun to be bad for a while, and then that ended really terribly - one piece of advice I'll give to people is your mom is always right.
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If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.
