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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Without sounding too pretentious, I feel my job is almost like becoming a monk or a nun - it's a calling.
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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
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I like to Instagram my dogs! I also get excited to post behind-the-scenes photos from when I was filming something.
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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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Do not let anyone discourage you. If they try: get determined, not depressed.
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Too many writers get into that gross-'em-out factor.