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've never had a year like this, ... This is the first time I've had to overcome this many at one time.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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My team of people around me, they were like, 'Don't be waiting and begging for a man.' You know what I'm saying? Like, 'Don't be desperate because you think having a boyfriend is going to be better. It might be harder with your career.' And then I was like, 'Yeah, you're right. I need to enjoy this."
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You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?
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Probably I'll not be so successful if I will keep everything in myself inside of me.
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Too many writers get into that gross-'em-out factor.
