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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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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In some instances, I would say the writer does deserve equal billing with the director. In other instances the director - especially if he wrote part of the script himself - is clearly more the author of the movie.
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I'm so disappointed in the frat parties at Columbia. I'm like an English boy going to an American college. I'm thinking cheerleaders, I'm thinking kegs. That's not what's on the cards.
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The paternalist is a sentimentalist at heart, and the sentimentalist is always potentially cruel.
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It is good to have companions when occasion arises, and it is good to be contented with whatever comes.
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Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.
