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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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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I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music.
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I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.
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One way to organize your thoughts is to tidy up, even if it's in places where it makes no sense at all.
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I don't see Hollywood as the big enemy, because this is where the money is, and not all of the companies are doing studio movies. I'm not tempted to sell out. If I'm going to become well known, I want it to be for something I'm proud of.
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It seems that in every culture, however tough life is and however impossible the conditions, there are some resilient human beings who find their way through, who survive and make something of themselves.
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We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
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If you're reluctant to weep, you won't live a full and complete life.
