Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes
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You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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I'm worried about the future of America insofar as our academically most promising students are being funneled through the cookie-cutter Ivy League and other elite schools and emerging with this callow anti-American, anti-military cast to their thinking.
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I've covered the White House and been yelled at by presidents.
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Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'
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Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.
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I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.
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Abraham Lincoln was killed by the forces of white supremacy.
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I once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stupidly went to her salon and told her she could do anything she liked. She dyed the bottom cherry red and the top peroxide blonde.
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I know I have a hit show on my hands.
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Food fighters in Japan think of themselves as athletes. They have a higher recognition of the game and are constantly thinking about records. I probably won't continue for long because it puts pressure on the body. But I am at the age where I can perform my best.
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We Americans choose not to understand the world on terms other than our own.
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Slavery is, as you justly complain, a sad blot on our free country.
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Our high school offered a comprehensive drama department where I was doing 'Angels in America' at 14.
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Real history is far more complex and interesting than the simplistic summaries presented in Wikipedia articles. Knowing this allows you to question received wisdom, to challenge 'facts' 'everybody' knows to be true, and to imagine worlds and characters worthy of our rich historical heritage and our complex selves.
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As much as I am one for real human interaction, I also want to make a show that's entertaining and that people want to see.
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I fell in love with Mexico. I fell in love with the people.
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This morning someone sent me a very funny photo of me holding their puppy. We have matching colour jackets.
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I have travelled across the universe through the years to find her. Sometimes going all the way is just a start...
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When it comes to the work, I'm excited to see what people think. When it comes to the private life, that's when I don't pay attention.
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That whole Deep End experience of finding yourself with the dead body: you know you didn't kill it, but you know if you're found with it, you're gonna be done for it, so you have to get rid of it. And that's a really important nub of Young Adam Joe knows for absolute certain that if someone comes around the corner, that's it. Nobody's ever going to believe what happened. So that has nothing to do with identity or sexuality, but that is a link. I'm just fascinated by it.
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How lonely it is going to be now on the Yellow Brick Road.
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This is a game, first and foremost. There was only one Vince Lombardi, and he died.
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... bums on the outside, libraries inside.
