Octavia E. Butler Quotes
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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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Imperfection is perfection.
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Sometimes you just wonder whether people just don't have the sensitivity or decency. I'm a member of the media myself: I host a talk show. I know sometimes when you want to ask something, you can circumvent it with words and vocabulary. You don't suddenly just go out there and ask something directly in the pretense of being absolutely candid.
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There's something scary about acting always, because basically you do all this work in a vacuum, and then suddenly there's a lot of money spent making a film, and there's suddenly a camera here, going, 'Right? What are you gonna do?'
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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I am a pop culture person. And car people have clearly contributed to pop culture, which is how I knew about purple French tail lights and 30-inch fins without exactly knowing what they were.
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I could definitely see myself making a serious movie or a drama in the future.
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The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit going through, I had a sigh of relief more than anything.
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If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.
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There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.
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I worked on the workshop of 'Topdog/Underdog' before it went to Broadway. My minor in school was theater, so I'm based in that, and then I moved to Los Angeles.
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The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
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In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
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But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space.
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The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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When I represent Team GB, I never give less than 100 per cent. It is an absolute honour.
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I try to keep myself as normal as possible. Stardom is transient. People forget you after a while.
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The artist-audience relationship is the most valuable thing, and anything you can do to fuel the long-term potential of that relationship is of value to you.
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There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life - we are never bored.
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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I may make you feel but I can't make you thinkYour sperm's in the gutter, your love's in the sink.
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Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
