Octavia E. Butler Quotes
People who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most important talent - or habit - was persistence. Without it, I would have given up writing long before I finished my first novel. It's amazing what we can do if we simply refuse to give up.
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When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only later in life you realise what a wonderful time it was. Looking back, I can't believe I even wanted to leave.
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A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.
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I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.
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I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for actors of color, namely Asian Americans, opportunities have been and remain substantially limited. One place this is not the case is on 'Hawaii Five-0,' where we have three Asian American series regulars and a landscape rich with diversity.
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We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV station for celebrities and for grand politicians and superstars. We are a TV station for the ordinary person. The normal people, ordinary people in the Arab world sees Al Jazeera as their voice.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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When you're putting good stuff into your body, you feel so much better.
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When I was born, my parents were huge into skiing. I grew up on Mont Blanc, skiing on that hill. I was really a ski baby. Loved it; I still love it.
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There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.
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I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.
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I always wake up 10 minutes before I have to be anywhere.
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I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition.
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I just love when girls rock short hair, because they can't hide behind anything. I feel more empowered with short hair.
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Archives can be inspiring but overwhelming. You have to forget them - especially when the whole world has been knocking them off. Everyone shops the same flea markets.
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Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.
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Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.
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People who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most important talent - or habit - was persistence. Without it, I would have given up writing long before I finished my first novel. It's amazing what we can do if we simply refuse to give up.
