Octavia E. Butler Quotes
I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
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In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.
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I really enjoy dancing. When there's music around, I can't help it; I start dancing, especially when I'm with friends.
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The brain abhors discrepancies.
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Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.
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I am not a fan of books.
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But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, there's a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional expression that's possible with the instrument.
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Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
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This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it's worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.
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We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.
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We don't have performances as big as 'Lemonade Mouth' on 'Zeke and Luther,' but they're both amazing experiences; just, 'Lemonade Mouth' was a bit bigger. It was different for me.
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Brooklyn, it's a great town, a great city. It's New York.
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I do find acting cathartic.
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My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.
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The way that people have gotten on board with me is the most encouraging thing in the world, but it's all very connected to the 14 years I've been on tour with Steel Train, even my band before that, Outline, and then fun. and now Bleachers.
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I didn't know a thing about Oxford and had never been to Britain. My father suggested it because in 1939 he had been about to take up a place at Wadham College, but the war broke out, and he joined the Army instead.
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The imagination is part of the arsenal that actors draw from.
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A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
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I've heard some writers say that they are obsessed with certain ideas and that they find themselves writing around the same obsession again and again, but telling different stories to get at that same idea. I'm beginning to think that I suffer from this syndrome, too.
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I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
