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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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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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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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 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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My only reason why I am not doing films is my children. My children need my attention, and it's my duty to give them my time. I have not given birth to them to just dump them and go off to work. I am not that kind of a person.
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It's a lot harder to stick to my regime when I'm travelling, so when I'm home, I make sure that when I wake up in the morning, I drink one litre of water with lemon to cleanse my body from the inside, and then I'll have a big jar of vegetable juice.
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One of the most notable traits of the Mexican's character is his willingness to contemplate horror: he is even familiar and complacent in his dealings with it.
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Measure a man by his actions fully, from the beginning to the end. Don't take a piece out of my life or a song out of my music and say this is what I'm about, because you know better than that.
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That kind of divine discontent comes from observing customers and noticing that things can always be better.
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The usual reason companies are funded or valued on the stock market for not having a current profit is because the investors believe there will be a future profit.
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Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
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God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.
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Blackness is not a monolith. We are not homogenous people; we are not all the same.
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I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.
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It's interesting because when you're in a show for a year, your life really isn't your own for that whole period.
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I was friends with Susan Sontag the last four years of her life. She had this amazing charisma and so much energy, but she had a sad little funeral in Montparnasse in Paris. It was rainy. It was all wrong. And I was thinking, 'God, she loved life so much.'
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If you're reluctant to weep, you won't live a full and complete life.
