Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
And the lesson was this; sit in the sun, head down, within a prickly vine, in a flickery light, or open light, and the world will come to you. The sky will come in its time, bringing rain, and the earth will rise through you, from beneath, and make you rich and make you full.
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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.
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I dedicated my 20s, my passion and energy to the name 'Rain.' I always did my best, and I thought if I did, it would eventually show, and even if it didn't turn out well, I wouldn't have any regrets.
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
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There's no way I'm going to stand up for bad ingredients. We love seasonal ingredients. It's a false dichotomy to say that modern cooking is at odds with that, but some people want to have a great ingredient and no technique.
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I entered politics from a completely different background from other people in this field, and that has helped me to see and deal with things differently.
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I'm the only gay person my parents know.
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I love New York. I can walk half a block and I'm at the grocery store. I don't have to drive anywhere.
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I'd like to do a romantic comedy.
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The reason why I love to win is because I don't have to go through that feeling of losing. It's those times where I lose that feeling that will stick with me.
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If you consider the definition of authenticity, it's saying something and actually doing it. I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
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I don't like your I-can-use-anything-as-an-adjective attitude.
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They all ask: Why? Why is it that this man’s name Ai Weiwei can never be typed on a Chinese computer or the whole sentence will disappear?
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A book brings its own history to the reader.
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That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places.
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If you're in a car crash, you're mostly involved in trying to not go off the bridge, and later on you say, 'Oh my God!'
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We're always on the search for a novel or a source or an existing screenplay, or writing something ourselves that turns us on. But because films cost a lot of money to make and a huge amount of effort to get the people to rally, you have to really like it; you can't just semi-like it. Getting to 'really like' is the part that takes the minute.
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Things are not what they appear to be: nor are they otherwise.
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My personal experience has been that in my 25 years of writing, I have not been asked to do more than four or five commercial one-shot scripts. These were performed on major national hook-ups but produced for me no immediate additional jobs or requests. One script for BBC was done around the world with an all-star cast.
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For the very first time, viewers will be able to watch their favorite shows before the rest of the world.
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And the lesson was this; sit in the sun, head down, within a prickly vine, in a flickery light, or open light, and the world will come to you. The sky will come in its time, bringing rain, and the earth will rise through you, from beneath, and make you rich and make you full.
