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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Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.
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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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When I went to live in South Africa, I immediately began to understand what went wrong. Because here was a place supposed to be under apartheid - I arrived there in 1991 - but here a black person had more say and had more influence over his white government than an average Kenyan had over the Moi government.
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Judicial restraint is a buzzword just like activist judge. Everybody's in favor of judicial restraint, but what does it mean? If it means not acting as a check against majoritarian excesses or upholding constitutional rights against improper government action, then restraint is not something admirable.
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There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.
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It's always been such a big part of my life to be fit and healthy and be outside and run and play sports. It gives me energy. Sometimes, I have these days where I don't do anything because I have the days off, and I just need to relax, and I actually get more tired.
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Members of al Qaeda and other affiliated organizations spent a great deal of time blending into the populations of several nations around the world and exploring all aspects of life there.
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If you're reluctant to weep, you won't live a full and complete life.
