Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
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I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
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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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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
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The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.
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Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
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Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.
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I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
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Man, 'Hill Street Blues' was on when I was 12, and I remember feeling I'd never seen anything like it. It was that far ahead of its time, with dark characters you loved. I remember Ed Marinaro, the football star.
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I remember once being told by a casting person, years ago, that I shouldn't pursue a career in the business because of the color of my skin. The fact that I remember it today means it stuck with me. I thought that was really stupid advice and advice nobody should ever give someone.
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We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.
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My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.
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MWA and The Author's Guild refused to accept me as a member.
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
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Twitter is worth it if you like tweeting. Same is true of Facebook. Or Pinterest. Nothing wrong with having a social presence.
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Throughout the Middle Ages the sway of the Church over the moral and spiritual life of the people, her power to inspire and direct their enthusiasms and energies, her chance for molding their conceptions of life, were amazing and unparalleled by any other force.
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You've gotta have a healthy balance of keeping your eye on how much money is in your account and making sure that it can sustain a healthy, happy life.
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If you're reluctant to weep, you won't live a full and complete life.
