Karen Joy Fowler Quotes
Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.
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While it may be true that the UAE has been an ally since the September 11, 2001, attacks, the American people know it has also harbored and aided some of the al Qaeda agents who were involved in that attack.
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Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.
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My greatest regret is selling my company.
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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It fits my ADD, so that's good. Because I really can't focus on anything for too long. And 'Top Gear's really the easiest thing to do because I'm with my pals. It's like coming home with my friends. We're having so much fun making the show.
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
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Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.
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VR is going to become something mainstream, but it's not going to happen right away. You just don't have the horsepower to make it happen on a device, much less a cheap enough and comfortable enough device that a normal consumer is going to want to have.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.'
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.
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Half of what creates psychopaths is genetic, but the other half is conditioning.
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Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you.
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The twists and turns of your life can be so unexpected, and that's a good thing to learn.
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I'm often asked how I get ideas for my stories. The answer is there's no single way; every story is different.
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Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.
