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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I boxed 15 years in a club.
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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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I guess maybe another gift I have is a great work ethic.
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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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In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.
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In maybe 1963, we had 'Collier's Encyclopedia,' and they sent us their yearly LP. I heard the Beatles talking on there. That was the first time I tried altering my voice, doing a Liverpudlian accent.
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We've uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and some people killed on Saturday nights. One of my relatives, unfortunately, was even in the newspaper business.
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I just know that making 'Beast' was an amazing experience. It was my first feature, it was the director's first feature, and every day, you're just trying to do good work and learn.
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I get so tired of people acting like, you know, black men and women never help each other, never support each other.
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I run a tight ship, but I try and make it seem like I'm not doing that at all.
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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.'
