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 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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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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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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I know, for me, 'Grease' was one of the first musicals that I can really remember watching as a kid, and I kind of fell in love that that genre.
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Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.
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I suppose if I didn't have Loopt, I'd have to, I don't know, pick up the phone and just start calling people, a lot more texting and certainly more Googling.
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We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.
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I cannot outline. I do not know what the next thing is going to happen in the book until it comes out of my fingers.
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If it weren't for singing, I don't know what else I would do with myself.
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You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.
Garry Kasparov -
Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.
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A State can sue for negligence as well as fraud damages.
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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.
