Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.

Ray Bradbury

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• There is always the fear of failure, and if you struggle, you become nervous, and that's when the underdogs have an opportunity to create a surprise.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Opportunity
  • Fear
  • Struggle

• In my opinion, the form of Government may be different in different countries, according to their circumstances, their wishes, their wants. England loves her Queen, and has full motive to do so.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Different
  • May
  • Government

• I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Love
  • Think
  • Clothes

• A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Up
  • Important
  • Funny

• If Shanghai wants to be an international cultural center, they have to do something about that. The reason I left is that I wanted to explore what ballet is all about, and if I had stayed put, that wouldn't have happened.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Reason
  • Explore
  • Ballet

• I did not think I would be able to do myself justice if I had to speak to the players in English. I would not be able to get my emotions and feelings across.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Myself
  • Justice
  • English

• In some ways, in the U.S. we don't know how to be. I think in a lot of ways America is about liberation and about change and progressive human relations. And because of that, I feel like that we're confused about who we're supposed to be and what it is that's supposed to satisfy us and make us feel fulfilled.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • America
  • Think
  • Change

• Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Change
  • First
  • Cuba

• I was free when I was 12 because I got my first skateboard. I've been free ever since.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Free
  • First
  • Ever

• I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Human
  • Look
  • See

• Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Up
  • Something
  • Script

• I did grow up in a very small town, and I only had a couple of people in my year at school. There were a lot of kids to play with - maybe not the same age, but there was always someone around.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• My dad dragged me to a Bruce Springsteen concert as a kid. It was my first concert, but I fell asleep in the middle. My second concert was Weezer on the 'Pinkerton' tour, and 'Pinkerton' is the reason why I'm doing this.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Dad
  • Reason
  • Kid

• Capri on the Amalfi Coast in Italy is my ultimate holiday destination.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Holiday
  • Destination
  • Italy

• The cooking standards for Italian food are less demanding than for French. All you need are some fried mozzarella and five pastas, and you're in business.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Business
  • Food
  • Cooking

• Where music leads, I follow.

  

  Alexander Wang
  • Music

• I love the physicality of instruments, and instruments as objects, like dancers are bodies.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National

• If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.

  

  Eric Cantona
  • Life
  • Death
  • Stop

• Fame is part of me and my life as an actor. I enjoy the creative aspects of my life as an actor. I enjoy directing and acting as well. But the bottom line for me is not prestige and power. It's about having an exciting, creative life.

  

  Matt Dillon
  • Life
  • Power

• O Peterkin,” said I, in a tone of remonstrance, “how could you be so unkind as to waken me when I had just got to sleep? Shabby fellow!” “Just got to sleep, say you? You’ve been snoring like an apoplectic alderman for exactly two hours.

  

  R. M. Ballantyne
  • Tone
  • Fellow
  • Shabby

• The causes of crime are very complicated. But there is a very big literature, as you know, about single parenthood in crime, about race in crime, and about poverty in crime.

  

  Bill Bennett
  • Single
  • Literature
  • Poverty

• The few people who ask to have their photographs with me, I almost always say yes, except for a few circumstances, like when my family is around.

  

  John Hodgman
  • People
  • Family

• I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad... he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things.

  

  Anthony Hopkins

• I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Writing