Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
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I think when you're a director, it's hard to do something unless you're absolutely over-the-moon in love with it. The audience, they spend 90 minutes with it, but for you, it's anywhere between a year and a half to three years of your life, every day, working on it.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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Research has shown that time pressure leads to tunnel vision and that people think more creatively when they are calm, unhurried and free from stress and distractions. We all know this from experience.
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Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate.
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I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.
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When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.
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I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.
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The way Moore's Law occurs in computing is really unprecedented in other walks of life. If the Boeing 747 obeyed Moore's Law, it would travel a million miles an hour, it would be shrunken down in size, and a trip to New York would cost about five dollars. Those enormous changes just aren't part of our everyday experience.
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The definition of 'morbid' is an unhealthy preoccupation with death. Unfortunately, there's no word to mean the perfectly healthy preoccupation with death, which is what I have.
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I think Serena Williams is the best tennis player of this generation, if not the best ever. It is amazing for her to be playing as well as she is at the age of 31.
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To fund major cultural efforts, we must not rely alone on government and foundation patronage; if the farmer can spend for beer, he can pay for good entertainment which he can understand, which he can identify with and which will fortify his spirit.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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You have to have a plan. This isn't wishing. Instead of always being in a hopeful situation - like, 'I hope one day ...' - let's claim it now.
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My glasses say a lot about me because I think me in a pair of sunglasses is an image that a lot of people would recognise.
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My story is the story of thousands of children from around the world. I hope it inspires others to stand up for their rights.
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Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.
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'Is it different, then, for men and for women?''What isn’t, dearie?'
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That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.
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The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
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I think I intimidate hecklers because I weigh more than most of them.
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I eat steamed sea bass and vegetables, and I have no sugar, and only drink soy milk.
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My life is nothing but pressure. All pressure. This pressure is like a heaviness. It's always on top of me, this heaviness. It's always there since I'm a kid. Other people wake up in the morning, 'A new day! Ah, up and at 'em!' I wake up, the heaviness is waiting for me nice. Sometimes I even talk to it. I say [adopts cheerful voice] 'Hi, heaviness!' and the heaviness looks back at me, [in an ominous growl] 'Today you're gonna get it good. You'll be drinking early today.'
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Beer's intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it.
