I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
RAY BRADBURYIf someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.
More Ray Bradbury Quotes
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Love what you do and do what you love. Don’t listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life.
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Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.
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The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.
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We are the witnesses to the miracle. We are put here by creation, by God….We’re here to be the audience to the magnificent. It is our job to celebrate.
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Work is the only answer. I have three rules to live by. One, get your work done. If that doesn’t work, shut up and drink your gin. And when all else fails, run like hell!
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The important thing is to be in love with something.
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You can make yourself happy or miserable – it’s the same amount of effort.
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I do a first draft as passionately and as quickly as I can. I believe a story is valid only when it’s immediate and passionate, when it dances out of your subconscious. If you interfere in any way, you destroy it.
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An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.
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I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.
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You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.
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Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.
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I don’t think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don’t take the toys out of their hands, we’re fools.
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It’s not going to do any good to land on Mars if we’re stupid.
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If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we’ll become completely dark.
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