Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

Any carefully planned thing destroys the creativity. You can't think your way through a story; you have to live it. So, you don't build a story; you allow it to explode.

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• Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.

  

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• During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.

  

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• I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.

  

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• Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
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• The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have nothing to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to connect with another individual has to do with humbleness. There are no lower or higher individuals in the perception of a humble person. There are only souls. There is only love.

  

  Gary Zukav
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• I am not thinking that because people say I am great that I really am great. I am just doing a job, just like everybody else. The only difference is that a lot more people see what I do.

  

  Oded Fehr
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• An enlarged global public society, with its many dissenting and corrective voices, can quickly call the bluff of lavishly credentialled and smug intellectual elites.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
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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.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• If you haven't understood the world you're living in, it's impossible to think that the solution you're coming up with fits.

  

  Eddie Obeng
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• I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.

  

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• For guys who are into fitness, I think it's important to wear slim-fit stuff that is pretty tight so they can show off the bodies they have been working hard to have. Women are going to appreciate that.

  

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• I hate the word sexy.

  

  Ursula Andress
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• I think that that integrity is something that is important to voters.

  

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• I made a few records here and there by default, but I wasn't ever comfortable in that role. I wasn't comfortable on stage. We'll see how it goes this time.

  

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• I just don't like to do a lot of the normal things expected of other artists. I'm not trying to be difficult; I'm just trying to stick with what it is I want to do.

  

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• It is important to note that there exist vast gender differences in the global role of papillomaviruses in human cancers. This is mainly due to the role of this virus family in the induction of cancer of the cervix.

  

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• The musical is the one area of the theater that can give you the biggest buzz of all.

  

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• We all carry the Houses of our Youth inside, and our Parents, too, grown small enough to fit within our Hearts.

  

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• Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.

  

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• My creativity all comes from the same place. I wear one very comfortable, large hat.

  

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• People simply learn to process information to the point where it doesn't serve true creativity.

  

  Michael Masser
  • Creativity
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• Any carefully planned thing destroys the creativity. You can't think your way through a story; you have to live it. So, you don't build a story; you allow it to explode.

  

  Ray Bradbury
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