Octavia E. Butler Quotes
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I tend to deal with characters who are sort of at that same point of wrestling with, 'Who am I going to be as an adult? What do I believe? How am I defining myself in the context of my culture and my peer groups, my family?'
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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
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The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.
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I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids.
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A lot of people meet me and they're like, 'Why aren't you crazy?'
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I've always lived my life fearlessly, and what I want to do with my life, I do.
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I vividly remember Charles Bronson's face in 'Chino.' The western genre is screaming for a face like that.
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I was doing everything I could think of to protect my husband and keep him alive.
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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
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We're right to say that a culture that can't tolerate free speech is... there are a wide range of positive human experiences that are not available in that culture. And we're right to want those experiences.
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Everyone puts all of the advances that we've made on Dr. King, but there's a lot of people who were part of the civil rights movement.
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Es ist so bequem, unmündig zu sein. Habe ich ein Buch, das für mich Verstand hat, einen Seelsorger, der für mich Gewissen hat, einen Arzt, der für mich die Diät beurtheilt u. s. w., so brauche ich mich ja nicht selbst zu bemühen. Ich habe nicht nöthig zu denken, wenn ich nur bezahlen kann.
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I won't ever get on stage at a comedy club when people know about it.
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Continually push yourself out of your comfort zone. Push yourself to stretch as you try new things each day.
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Until we recognize the SELF that exists apart from who we think we are - we cannot know the Ch'an ( ZEN ) MIND
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I don't think Post often came to Princeton during the '30s. I can't remember ever seeing him in Princeton.
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Hopefully I'll be the first Mexican-American going into Hillbilly Heaven.
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Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.
