Octavia E. Butler Quotes
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I'm not good with catty girls. I'm too laid-back.
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I have many, many gay friends.
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Inside every Sancho Panza there's a Don Quixote struggling to get out.
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I'm manic-depressive, technically bi-polar II with many borderline features.
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Regulations about environments are going to get tougher and tougher.
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Many Democrats have a pre-9/11 worldview.
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Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!
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I felt bad to have to get divorced. I wasn't proud of that.
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I've never liked rehearsing too much.
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Brad Pitt is amazingly talented and equally good-looking, too.
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If we didn't get the record, we didn't exist.
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Value is what you get.
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It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
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I never sue journalists. I employ journalists. I employ too many of them. I don't sue journalists.
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I'm too tasteful for my pants.
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Movies are too literal.
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That's all I cared about too, was getting it right.
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Someday we may have as many followers as the harpsichord.
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I love clothes so much. I feel like whatever I wear is an insight for other people to get to see who I am, or for me to portray how I'm feeling.
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Economists and workplace consultants regard it as almost unquestioned dogma that people are motivated by rewards, so they don't feel the need to test this. It has the status more of religious truth than scientific hypothesis. The facts are absolutely clear. There is no question that in virtually all circumstances in which people are doing things in order to get rewards, extrinsic tangible rewards undermine intrinsic motivation.The bonus myth: How paying for results can backfire.
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I think the paparazzi is a necessary evil... and if ya don't like it, and ya don't want to do this, go to Iowa and do some community theatre. It's all about self-promotion, and it's not always the fun part of it.
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Too many writers get into that gross-'em-out factor.
