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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From a very young age, music was very much in my house. I would sit with my mom, with the old LPs, listening to The Beatles and Carly Simon and Lionel Richie. The old LPs used to have the lyrics. From there, I would put on dance and music displays for my family, just to entertain them and make people laugh and smile.
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“It was the word for a disquiet not otherwise definable, it referred to a miscellaneous crowd of things in her head, debris in a muddy water of the brain. The frantumaglia was mysterious, it provoked mysterious actions, it was the source of all suffering not traceable to a single obvious cause.
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To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East takes guts, not guns.
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The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.
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I know the pundits and the news media have carried a lot of commentary about cameras in the courtroom, and there's a lot of controversy about it as a result of the Simpson case. But I have not had enough time to step back and enough time to evaluate that.
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Too many writers get into that gross-'em-out factor.
