Octavia E. Butler Quotes
At school I was always taller than the rest of my class, and because I was an only child, I was comfortable with adults but shy and awkward with other kids. I was quiet, bookish, and in spite of my size, hopeless at sports. In short, I was different. And even in the earliest grades, I got pounded for it.
Octavia E. Butler
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I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.
Imelda May
But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.
Aaron Spelling
I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
Ha-Joon Chang
We need a wireless mobile device ecosystem that mirrors the PC/Internet ecosystem, one where the consumers' purchase of network capacity is separate from their purchase of the hardware and software they use on that network. It will take government action, or some disruptive technology or business innovation, to get us there.
Walt Mossberg
Most actors can't make any kind of living.
Viggo Mortensen
I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.
Tavi Gevinson
I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.
Narendra Modi
Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
My dad would pick me up every other Friday at 6 o'clock and drop me off every Sunday at 6 o'clock, and I remember those last couple hours, like around 4 o'clock, my dad would get kind of sad because he knew that he was about to not see me for two more weeks.
RaeLynn
I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
Pat Robertson
I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.
Aaron Siskind
Everything's so accelerated now.
Dan Stevens
Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
Yvette Nicole Brown
If you want a product that's thicker with a bigger battery, it's also heavier, more costly, takes longer to charge.
Phil Schiller
Some of the most innovative things in football I see at high school games. It's not the play - it's when you run it. The right time.
Bud Grant
I wouldn't mind being taller or stronger.
Mark Zupan
There's a joke in my family that I'm going to make a career out of playing other people's younger selves.
Ella Purnell
At school I was always taller than the rest of my class, and because I was an only child, I was comfortable with adults but shy and awkward with other kids. I was quiet, bookish, and in spite of my size, hopeless at sports. In short, I was different. And even in the earliest grades, I got pounded for it.
Octavia E. Butler
