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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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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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 could live in a sari; I was born to wear a sari.
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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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In general, when you have success on the field, you're more popular, and you have that fame that comes with it. You realize you're in the public eye more, and you've got to be a little bit more careful about some of the things you're doing out in public and make sure you're smart about the things you say.
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If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.
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Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide.
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I've seen a fair bit of the States and the rest of the world, and I'm convinced that there's nowhere I'd be happier, there's nowhere I'm missing out on because I'm in N.Y.
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I love New York, and I'm drawn to a certain intensity of life, but I've just never felt like I want to escape from the Midwest. A writer lives a great deal in his own head, and so one intuitively finds places where your head is more clear. New York for me is one of those places.
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I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.
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The sprint is sometimes like a toss of a coin. Sometimes it's heads, and sometimes it's tails.
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Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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I like to play with tropes.
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If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.
