Ray Bradbury Quotes - Page 22

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• The whole concept of higher education is negated unless the sole criterion used to determine if students qualify is the grades they score on standardized tests. Education is purely an issue of learning - we can no longer afford to have it polluted by damn politics. Leave pollution up to the politicians

  Ray Bradbury

  Issues, Tests, Students

  Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.160, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The novel's not organized like a screenplay. If you shot the novel, you'd have a twelve-hour movie.

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  Twelve, Hours, Shots

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• Friendship is an island that you retreat to and you all fall on the floor and laugh at all the other ninnies that don't have enough brains to have your good taste.

  Ray Bradbury

  Fall, Islands, Laughing

  "Ray Bradbury's Lost Interview On Madmen, Writing, and Cars" by Chris Higgins, mentalfloss.com. April 28, 2015.

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• The great thing about my life is that everything I've done is a result of what I was when I was 12 or 13.

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  Done, Life Is, Results

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• I feel like I own all the kids in the world because, since I've never grown up myself, all my books are automatically for children.

  Ray Bradbury

  Children, Book, Kids

  Source: www.raybradbury.com

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• Science fiction is a great way to pretend you are writing about the future when in reality you are attacking the recent past and the present. You can criticize communists, racists, fascists or any other clear and present danger, and they can't imagine you are writing about them.

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  Writing, Reality, Past

  Source: www.raybradbury.com

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• Sometimes you have intuitive insight about how you think things are going to be, and you write that. Other times you fantasize completely, which has nothing to do with predicting the future.

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  Writing, Thinking, Sometimes

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• The Greek philosophies teach us that we are a combination of dark and light, good and evil, and murderer and savior, hmm? And until we know this completely about ourselves we cannot love well, and we cannot forgive ourselves.

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  Philosophy, Dark, Light

  Source: www.tangentonline.com

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• We're all watching each other, so there's no chance for censorship. The main problem is the idiot TV. If you watch local news, your head will turn to mush.

  Ray Bradbury

  Watches, News, Tvs

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• Kids love me because I write stories that tell them about their capacity for evil. I'm one of the few writers who lets you cleanse yourself that way.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Kids, Evil

  Source: www.raybradbury.com

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• Mars is empty now. Five hundred years from now, it'll be full of people.

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  Years, People, Mars

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The world doesn't give a damn about you unless you do something. Those are the rules; I didn't make them. If you are lazy, if you don't get the work that you love done, the world won't care if you die tomorrow and go into the grave and are gone and forgotten forever.

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  Giving, Forever, Lazy

  Source: www.tangentonline.com

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• My business is to prevent the future.

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• There are certain kinds of people who write science fiction. I think a lot of us married late. A lot of us are mama's boys. I lived at home until I was 27. But most of the writers I know in any field, especially science fiction, grew up late. They're so interested in doing what they do and in their science, they don't think about other things.

  Ray Bradbury

  Home, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.raybradbury.com

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• When you grow up in science fiction you grow up in everything! It's the greatest and only field worth growing up in. It's the total field.

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  Growing Up, Fiction, Fields

  Source: www.tangentonline.com

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• Notoriety and a fat bank balance must come after everything else is finished and done.

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  Balance, Done, Fats

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• I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible. Science fiction, again, is the history of ideas, and they're always ideas that work themselves out and become real and happen in the world. And fantasy comes along and says, 'We're going to break all the laws of physics.' ... Most people don't realize it, but the series of films which have made more money than any other series of films in the history of the universe is the James Bond series. They're all science fiction, too - romantic, adventurous, frivolous, fantastic science fiction!

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  Art, Real, Law

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• I'm trying to teach people of all ages to, number one: how to criticize, how to offer creative analysis on top of that, how to try to build things in a new direction and how to compliment people when the thing gets done.

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  Numbers, People, Creative

  Source: www.tangentonline.com

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• My stories are warnings; they're not predictions. If they were predictions, I wouldn't do them. Because then I'd be part of the doom-ridden psychology. But every time I name a problem, I try to give a solution.

  Ray Bradbury

  Names, Giving, Psychology

  Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.131, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are.

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  Writing, Honest, Faster

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• Lone at night, when I was twelve years old, I looked at the planet Mars and I said, 'Take me home!' And the planet Mars took me home, and I never came back. So I've written every day in the last 75 years. I've never stopped writing.

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  Home, Writing, Night

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• You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they write themselves.

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  Writing, Mind, Stories

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I am a dedicated madman, and that becomes its own training. If you can't resist, if the typewriter is like candy to you, you train yourself for a lifetime. Every single day of your life, some wild new thing to be done. You write to please yourself. You write for the joy of writing. Then your public reads you and it begins to gather around your selling a potato peeler in an alley, you know. The enthusiasm, the joy itself draws me. So that means every day of my life I've written. When the joy stops, I'll stop writing.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Mean, Typewriters

  "Ray Bradbury's Lost Interview On Madmen, Writing, and Cars" by Chris Higgins, mentalfloss.com. April 28, 2015.

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• Old men only lie in wait for people to ask them to talk. Then they rattle on like a rusty elevator wheezing up a shaft.

  Ray Bradbury

  Lying, Men, People

  "Dandelion Wine". Book by Ray Bradbury, p. 81, 1957.

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• To solve the drug problem, we have to start at the root - first grade. If a boy has all the toys in his head that reading can give him, and you hook him into science fiction, then you've got the future secured.

  Ray Bradbury

  Reading, Boys, Roots

  Source: www.raybradbury.com

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