Octavia E. Butler Quotes
'You’re bright,' Lupe said to her softly. 'Very bright, but stubborn. You think you can choose your realities. You can’t.'
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A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush's shovel.
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I might see something on TV and get inspired to write about it. I can't sit down and plan to write. It has to come to me in my head like someone telling me the words.
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Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
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You can enjoy yourself, but you need to look after yourself as well.
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I've gone to war zones before and never got shot.
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I think I do myself a disservice by comparing myself to Steve Jobs and Walt Disney and human beings that we've seen before. It should be more like Willy Wonka... and welcome to my chocolate factory.
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Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.
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I believe that shows should be shot where they take place.
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It's kind of an art, going out and performing. I'd like fans to remember me as a guy who would go out and entertain them, give them quality matches, and not just the same old garbage every week.
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To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.
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It's really easy to create a $1 billion company - you just have to solve a $10 billion problem.
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I had a very bad torn groin, my abdomen right through my legs. I was finding it really hard to get in the ring and run around and function at a decent rate. Then they had the idea that it might be better to do a retirement thing.
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Poetry's a thing that belongs to everyone.
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Terrorism is you winning hearts and minds of people.
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Even though 'Hemlock Grove' was a serious, supernatural mystery, it was pretty fun on set. It was a light mood.
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My natural inclination to be improv rather than an educated character serves me well.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting. The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult-to begin a war and to end it.
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Thus, if armaments were curtailed without a secure peace and all countries disarmed proportionately, military security would have been in no way affected.
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Many are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in boys who are not diligent and never finish their drawings with shading.
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I think dancing is a man's game and if he does it well he does it better than a woman.
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It's hard to hear the story of a love affair between two straight men, one of whom is the most divine woman alive.
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I feel that there is an alternate ending that leaps off too far into fantasy and there is an alternate ending that leaps off too far into pessimism, but that, in fact, the novel as it has developed should, if it's functioning correctly, have equipped you as the reader to make your own decision about where you want to go with that, about where you're going to fall on that continuum. So, the novel is taking you directly up to the point that you have to choose, and it's letting you do that.
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'You’re bright,' Lupe said to her softly. 'Very bright, but stubborn. You think you can choose your realities. You can’t.'
