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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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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With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
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It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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This whole world is mind's world, the product of the mind.
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Most people are really cool and I really don't mind talking to them and answering their questions.
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I have a deep-seated belief that marriage is between a man and a woman exclusively.
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I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.
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Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill.
