Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
The great thing about my life is that everything I've done is a result of what I was when I was 12 or 13.
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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures.
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Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.
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Even more than dying itself, I'm scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human body as it ages. I think of it as a sort of haunted-house effect, living inside a crumbling, creaking structure that is full of ghosts and will, some day, fall down.
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I'm not stuck in Strikeforce. I'm happy to be with them. It's where I started, and they've been great to me.
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There are a thousand ways to play any role.
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I'm not going to raise the debt ceiling.
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When more Chinese started coming after the Gold Rush, employed on large projects like the Pacific Railroad, anti-Chinese sentiment became shrill.
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I love being a redhead. It's a rare thing, so I think there's a bond between redheads.
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I love Sam Mendes. He's a fantastic director.
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Some characters think more like me than others; some think more like my dad or someone else. It certainly is made up of my experiences, things I've heard, things I think are funny, things I think are sad. There's sort of a strange, blurry version of yourself in there.
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I have good legs, so I prefer my skirt lengths and my high heels. It's like my uniform.
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I would like to do something that pushes me as an actress to make me better. I would love to do something dramatic or crazy. I think that would be so much fun.
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There is no singer I can think of who can touch Ella Fitzgerald. And when Billie Holiday sings, she's merciless about it. Her voice has just this immaculate sadness - even in happy songs, there was something that was so broken about it.
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Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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The great thing about my life is that everything I've done is a result of what I was when I was 12 or 13.
