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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At that time my heart was all brokeI looked like ashes and smelled like smoke.And I turned away from my loving kindTry to leave my body and live in my mind.But it's much too much emotionTo hold it in your hand.They've got waves out on the oceanThey're gonna wear away the land.
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When Yogi hit the ball down the left-field line, with Amoros' speed and being a left-handed thrower -- a right-handed thrower probably couldn't have caught the ball. I always kid around with people. I say, 'I was very important in that seventh game.' You don't win many games by being taken out of the game.
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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You can divide my life into two.
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A person experiences life as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. Our task must be to free ourselves from this self-imposed prison, and through compassion, to find the reality of Oneness.
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If you're reluctant to weep, you won't live a full and complete life.
