Octavia E. Butler Quotes
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If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.
Nathan Myhrvold -
Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
Ian Anderson -
Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
Fran Lebowitz -
Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
Pat Buchanan -
It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
Edan Lepucki -
I like doing my own stunts.
Ram Charan
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When I was a teenager, I learned to play the trumpet. Music became my passion.
Edmund Phelps -
I think we're a deeper team, a better team, we still have work to do... nothing is guaranteed, but hopefully we got the mentality to play on the road, and we're starting to get our home thing back in order now-if we can do that we'll be just fine.
Karl Malone -
I am a sufferer of endometriosis. I didn't want any young women to go through what I went through. I thought that people should know about it.
Padma Lakshmi -
I love America the way I love my family - I was born into it. And there's no escape out of it.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I didn't know 'Homeland' was going to be 'Homeland.' I just did it because it was a terrific script, and they pitched me the story line, and I was like, 'Huh, that's interesting.'
Damian Lewis -
The initial spark, your affection for the characters, all those things can disappear. It's a perilous thing.
Patrick deWitt
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I came to Los Angeles only after filming 'A Good Day to Die Hard,' when I was cast in the independent movie 'Delirium.' Director Lee Roy Kunz was looking everywhere for a Russian actress. He saw my photos, and only then he learned where I starred before! Eventually, I spent several months in the U.S., and we made the film quickly.
Yuliya Snigir -
Nobody's life is wrapped up neatly in a bow.
Zoe Lister-Jones -
I have a hyper personality.
Zoe Saldana -
The causes and severity of NSA infractions vary widely. One in 10 incidents is attributed to a typographical error in which an analyst enters an incorrect query and retrieves data about U.S phone calls or emails.
Barton Gellman -
There is a danger in monotheism, and it's called idolatry. And we know the prophets of Israel were very, very concerned about idolatry, the worship of a human expression of the divine.
Karen Armstrong -
Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.
J. Courtney Sullivan
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I keep waiting for someone to cast me as the angel or the witch or the immortal of some kind because so much of the reading I do for my own pleasure is fantasy, horror, or sci-fi.
Lorraine Toussaint -
We have met the enemy and he is us.
Walt Kelly -
Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
M. J. Rose -
Although surgeons know how to deal with bits of the brain, they don't really know how it works.
James Nesbitt -
It's a cruel, heartless world out there in commercial rock 'n' roll, and when you take as much time off as we did, eight years, booking agents don't know if you'll draw.
Tina Weymouth -
Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
Octavia E. Butler