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 any actor in their right mind is afraid of getting pigeonholed.
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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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The nature of man is such that people consider themselves put under an obligation as much by the benefits they confer as by those they receive.
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We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.
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I just happened to have enough time to be able to take other parts between those first few Twilight films. But it wasn't about proving to people that I had something else to give.
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I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, but I have done well, and I am proud of it.
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My style is definitely not ladylike - frills and bows kinda scare me - but I like the military look because I love that olive green khaki color.
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You are horror and beauty in rare combination.
