Octavia E. Butler Quotes
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Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
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It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
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I was a really big kid.
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I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental.
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I'm not a big traveller.
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I'm not a big fan of romantic comedies, believe it or not.
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Well, I've been in several films including documentaries, but the big blockbuster, I was hired as advisor to the actors, I was trying to make Jesuits out of them.
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The big bulk of the response to antidepressants is the placebo response.
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The Internet is so big that no one can control anything, really.
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I'm proud of the fact that I've taken a lot of big directors, such as Trevor Nunn and Nick Hytner, who were musical virgins, and introduced them to the form.
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I grew up on the rough side of the tracks. If you looked like you were soft, you would be fodder for the wolves. I came up in my neighbourhood like, 'I'm just gonna be me,' and all the thugs just said, 'It's OK, he's special.' They knew I had the talent with the rhymes, so they kept me around.
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It is my absolute belief that Indians have unlimited talent. I have no doubt about our capabilities.
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Age is just a number, and your talent will never fail you. It has no expiry date.
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
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I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.
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I'm a big Peyton Manning fan.
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On many occasions, an informal buffet and casual seating offer a little more intimacy than a loud gathering around a big table.
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Acting is equal parts talent and perseverance.
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I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk my way out of difficult situations.
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I come from a big, loud family, and I'm the quieter one. Performing is something I have to switch on. I've heard I get real sassy onstage, which I'm not in real life! It's fun to be that person for an hour a night.
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I think the more web video there is, the more press you'll get, as well as all the people who want to tell stories that haven't been told before but can't do that on TV because different stories are a risk.
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The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it's your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can't package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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The big talent is persistence.
