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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If I have a feeling of not trusting, I don't get too close.
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People don't care anymore because they don't believe in us; they don't trust us. And that's why we should change politics, not just accept the cynical frame that, 'Well, that's just politics.'
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Our job is to understand where the market is heading and translate that into practical action.
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I want to paint something that's gorgeous, something that's perfect. So that it's full of sadness.
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Too many writers get into that gross-'em-out factor.
