Octavia E. Butler Quotes
Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage.
Octavia E. Butler
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Making a donation is the ultimate sign of solidarity. Actions speak louder than words.
Ibrahim Hooper
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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.
D'Angelo
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Collaboration is no longer painful - or precious.
Vince Clarke
Erasure
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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.'
Tanith Lee
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Find time still to be learning somewhat good, and give up being desultory.
Marcus Aurelius
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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.
Labrinth
LSD
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I'll never get used to living without Mo, but the painful things that surround what happened to him aren't so painful any more - not so raw or so new.
Robin Gibb
Bee Gees
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And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so, attended him even in Ithaca, near those he loved.
Homer
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In my job, you expect to suffer. That's why when I go to hell one day, it will be less painful for me than you, because I'm used to suffering.
Arsene Wenger
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Sadly however, I discovered in one particular case that a colleague went and paid the bribe on my behalf, just to get our mission fulfilled. That was painful, and it strained our friendship.
Wole Soyinka
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The Beatles, the Small Faces and the Kinks were great bands, but that was in the '60s.
Gavin Rossdale
Bush
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Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage.
Octavia E. Butler