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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What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all - the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.
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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 don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
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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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The media is constantly redefining what luxury is. Luxury can be a dirty sock if dressed up in the right way.
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The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.
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It took me ten minutes to write this very sentence. I'm no writer. This is not my calling.
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One of the first albums I can remember hearing was a Supertramp best of, with mostly 'Breakfast in America' songs on it. It's kind of the same thing as the Flaming Lips, where there are these really melancholy lyrics and melodies, yet it's extremely uplifting. They're like a nonfuturistic version of the Flaming Lips.
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To succeed in life, succeed at being yourself.
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Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.
