Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
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I know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I'm assuming they're at least going to want to touch on it, but I don't know and I don't know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
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I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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I'm the easiest person to make fun of.
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My perspective comes in part from being a New York black lady, in part from being an engineer. I know I'm smart and have opinions worth being heard.
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Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art is like haikus, just one line thing. And it's more casual but more interesting.
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If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
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VR is going to be defined by the content that is designed explicitly for virtual reality.
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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
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I used to go to Cold Stone Creamery, get a tub of Butterfinger ice cream, and eat it all before bedtime. And my fingers were permanently stained orange from Cheetos.
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I know some children's writers write for specific children, or for the children they once were, but I never have. I just thought children might like my sort of visual humour.
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
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There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.
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Directing Marilyn Monroe was like directing Lassie. You needed fourteen takes to get each one of them right.
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I just think it's strange when people say, "There is no God." Because I feel so connected to people and things that I just can't deny that there's a God who wants us to tell good stories and be the best we can be and forgive and be forgiven, even if we're not the best we can be. I really believe innately that we do the best we can.
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I seem to always inspire a strong reaction one way or the other.
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When I took drum lessons as a kid the teacher would always ask me if I practiced, and I'd be like 'nope' and he'd be like: "Well you're not going to be able to play the beat." So I would ask him to show me, and he'd show me and I'd be able to hear it and play it, so I've always not really been good at reading things.
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Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill.
