Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied it even if I had heard of it.
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There are parallels between the music and film worlds, but they're really very different. I feel like they're just two different ways to channel my creativity.
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I'm very conscious of Miguel Cotto's career... I need to do my part on that night to have victory and create my own legacy in this sport of boxing.
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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The goal is to divide my time between stage and film.
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It simply isn't acceptable for the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon and others, which amass data by the terabyte, to say, 'Don't worry, your information's safe with us, as all sorts of rules protect you' - when all evidence suggests otherwise.
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The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself.
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I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.
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I love 'First Wives Club' and 'Death Becomes Her' and movies about women like that.
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I am much more understanding of people than I used to be when I was young - people were either villainous or wonderful. They were painted in very bright colours. The bad side of it - and there is a corollary to everything - is that when we get older, we fuss more. I used to despise people who fussed.
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The ultimate thing is creating your own stuff and making projects for yourself. That's what Seth Rogen does. He's writing and producing a lot of the movies that he's the lead in.
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To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
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My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night.
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It's much easier for me to do an impression of someone real, because you and the audience begin with a baseline understanding of this person's life. And then if you subvert that in any way, it's a little comedy surprise.
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Vince Vaughn is a genuine person, awesome guy. He'll come to a lot of my shows. It's not that often that you can meet someone as cool as Vince.
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Waka Flocka is a product, a franchise, a brand, a label... And a good guy!
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We've got to decide that we want to live in a world that is sane and happy and healthy, and that everyone deserves that.
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Harvard was also a little bit of a villain in my first book, 'The Dante Club.' I guess there might be a way to make Harvard more of a sympathetic presence, but it's such a powerful institution that it more naturally lends itself toward not necessarily a negative but an obstructionist element in a story.
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Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
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When you're making a record - and I've never said this to anybody, but it's true - when you're making a record, and you go, 'Man, this might win a Grammy!' you feel that level of confidence when you're making a record.
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After a day's fishing, I'll know the solution to something or have good ideas that were not accessible before.
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Leadership is by far the most important quality when it comes to making a show that's going to last and of superb quality, something classy and fun.
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The important thing is to be in love with something.
