Octavia E. Butler Quotes
...I realized that I knew less about loneliness than I had thought - and much less than I would know when he went away.
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I'm not an aggressive person at all. But I know how to fight.
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I'm a huge NASCAR fan, but I'm not a gearhead. I've never been into fixing cars. It's not because I don't like it. I would love to know more. It's just my dad never taught me that stuff because my dad wasn't a mechanic.
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I know there are some actors who are just brilliant at improvising and brilliant at just being in the moment and doing it there and then. I'm not one of those actors.
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My God, I don't know anyone who likes to accumulate their wealth more than the Europeans.
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
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Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.
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The social system grows rigid but the productive forces continue to expand, and conflict ensues between the forces of production and the social conditions of production.
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You know, I haven't written as much as most other writers. Certainly maybe those who keep a more regular schedule accomplish more.
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It's really fun to act like a bimbo. But it's fun to act like a bimbo only when people know that you really aren't one.
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In case you don't know this, we're not in the '90s anymore. Indie cinema does not reign.
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The years teach much which the days never know.
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I think becoming a scientist is the product of parents who gave me enormous opportunities to master nature.
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The term 'hero' irritates me greatly.
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I mean, we sit around and we go, you know, 'Torture doesn't work.' Well, it's been around for 5,000 years. Most stuff that doesn't work goes the way of the dodo pretty quick, like waterbeds and 8-tracks and things like that.
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Comedy's really subjective, you know.
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One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.
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I don't know what I'm qualified to do, film-wise... So it's really down to a director or a casting director to find something that they think I could do.
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You never know how much time you got.
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Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private qualities futile. They were fortunate in their epoch: Europe had fallen barbarous; and the memory of Greek and Latin learning was fading from men's minds.
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I'm not thinking about the next record really yet. I kind of want to do a bunch of stuff with Jonathan Zawada, the guy who did the album art. I'd like to do some crazy art installations and design some weird synthesizers and work with other people and make some fun stuff for a bit. Maybe tap into virtual reality stuff or maybe write another record.
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It's hard to remember a time when I wasn't writing.
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I think all philanthropy invests in product innovation, whether in a vaccine or a new kind of product of one sort or another, and I think we'll all continue to do that.
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I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless. But his speech was a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable and nobody agreed with that more than I did.
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...I realized that I knew less about loneliness than I had thought - and much less than I would know when he went away.
