Octavia E. Butler Quotes
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Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it.
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I went through a lot in middle school, and you always try so many different looks and try to be so many different people. I finally realized I'm awkward, I'm lanky, and I'm going to embrace it - make fun of myself and just laugh.
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Even as a kid, I'd have a recorder, and I'd lean it up against a TV and record 'I Love Lucy.' I loved hearing the audience laughing. It was really exciting to me.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I think of a song in terms of lyrics and stories, and that's what keeps it country for me.
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Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life that cannot be revealed in factual narratives.
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My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.
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Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need. We owe our heroes no less.
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I'm a storyteller. I love to tell stories about brands. I love to tell stories, period. I like painting pictures through the words, and that's what I do.
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When I'm 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I'll be like: 'Cool, I'll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.'
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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I think we respond well when we do something well.
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
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Every non-Marxist economic theory that treats human and non-human productive inputs as interchangeable assumes that the dehumanisation of human labour is complete. But if it could ever be completed, the result would be the end of capitalism as a system capable of creating and distributing value.
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I got a funny feeling like something was real wrong... Looked at her shoes and her feets was real long! Then it hit me, Oh please God no, Don't let this ho turn out to be a John Doe... He pulled a fast one on me, yo!
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Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.
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I don't agree with that decision because I don't think by Saturday we will have a new (Palestinian) government.
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The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is the gift of God.
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You are horror and beauty in rare combination.
