Octavia E. Butler Quotes
I can’t do it, Joachim. I wouldn’t be able to live with myself. A long leash is still a leash. And Coransee will still be at the other end of it, holding on.
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Our franchises have never been healthier. Our league, in terms of its economic footing, has never been healthier.
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The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
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First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
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I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.
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I'd be more likely to go for somebody who is like me. Well, I like creative people, so whatever that means... Yeah, authentic and creative.
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Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love.
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I won't name any names, but I've done a couple of shows where once the pilot got picked up, the creators openly said, 'I have no idea where we're going.'
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When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
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I guess one that wouldn't be obvious is - well, maybe it's super obvious, I can't tell - 'I Love Lucy' is my favorite show, going back to when I was 4. I've watched every episode I don't know how many times. It was something to watch women being funny when I was young.
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The Indonesian brands aren't interested in sports people, only movie stars, because they can get more exposure in the media.
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When you don't get what you want, it just makes you accept real life.
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It's a lot of wonderful things about the Bay area and Oakland that I absolutely love. I wouldn't change being from there by any stretch.
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I think if you write about human relationships, you're always exploring the psyche and the soul. I don't separate certain - perhaps more extreme - things that people do from others.
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I felt like there was a certain standard that we held 'Strangers' to, so I think about that whenever I work on something.
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I'm not a poster boy for misogyny and I don't think hip-hop should be either.
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Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
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The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.
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I can’t do it, Joachim. I wouldn’t be able to live with myself. A long leash is still a leash. And Coransee will still be at the other end of it, holding on.
