Octavia E. Butler Quotes
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Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.
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I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.
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Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.
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When did you last have fun being dignified?
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The line between anime and regular animation is very difficult to cross, even for people who have been doing anime successfully for years.
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I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.
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A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
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Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.
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Never put your family, friends, or significant other low on your priority list. Prefer a handful of truly close friends to a hundred acquaintances.
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I am crumbling in sync with old Hackney.
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I love working and I love doing lots of things and a variety of things. It keeps your mind active... and you don't end up worrying about just the one thing. When I chew things over or analyze too much, that is when I can trip myself up.
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I can say that I had a particularly painful teenage-hood.
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Making a donation is the ultimate sign of solidarity. Actions speak louder than words.
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Prince, you never knew what to expect from him from one album to the next. Miles Davis was like that. You know, once you get used to one style, boom, he switched it and, you know, switched gears on you. So those artists are very exciting to me, very exciting to follow their path, you know, and their journey.
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Collaboration is no longer painful - or precious.
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'Now you understand,' Rarm said to me. 'It was the last cut against yourself to become convinced of your own hideousness. You held to it and nurtured it, and even identified with the devil goddess of Orash in your determination to be accursed. And it never occurred to you that perhaps you saw a false image under the mountain.'
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Find time still to be learning somewhat good, and give up being desultory.
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I'm not just looking to be famous and attach myself to famous names. I want to make history in the business in terms of creativity.
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Option 1: Attempt to back out. Probable result: Death after painful torture. Option 2: Do the job and hope. Probable result: Death but probably no torture (good)
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But if you miss it, you will next be confronted with the angry deities, ... threatening you and barring your passage ... because you turned a deaf ear to the saving truths of religion. All these forms are strange to you, ... they terrify you, ... and yet it is you who have created them. Do not give in to your fright, ... flee them not! They are but ... the contents of your own mind... If at this point you should manage to understand that, ... and you will find yourself in a paradise among the angels.
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It's painful to not be able to fully focus, but it keeps you fresh.
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I think all great innovations are built on rejections.
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How much more of an injustice is it that people who work get more money than people who don't work?
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Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage.
