Octavia E. Butler Quotes
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I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night.
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A small pay discrepancy between men's and women's salaries for the same job may seem inconsequential. But over the years, salary discrimination adds up to a significantly smaller pension.
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Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
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I almost took a job in Italy. It was really a great opportunity, but they didn't think I had enough international experience.
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In the south, whether it is a small film or a big film, everybody sees it. So, there is always something for everybody to come, see, and enjoy.
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Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.
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Pete Wilson deregulated energy as a pay out to Enron, and we blamed Gray Davis.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know.
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I have absolutely no interest in playing the young male lead around which a story happens.
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That's what happens in a good horror movie: there are always metaphors of greater subjects like humanity and empathy and compassion. It's not about the action and scary moments: You really care about these characters because they're mirrors of our own reflections.
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I love the Royal Family and every aspect of Britain and what we have achieved in history.
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Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.
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I like having those preseason games and exhibitions to really get ready for the regular season and get yourself off to a good start.
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I did two movies that were arthouse movies; they were critically successful but made no money at all... but after making those movies, I thought, 'I wouldn't watch my own movies when I was 16, and my buddies where I came from wouldn't watch my movies, because they were boring.'
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It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.
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Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.
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I don't take a scene or word for granted.
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Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.
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In my research, I found that since 1979, women have lost the equivalent to one night's sleep due to the pressures of balancing work and family. And as more women have gone into the work force because they have to, and when you discriminate against a woman's pay you discriminate against her children or her husband or her significant other in terms of what the family income is.
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Nothing like an arcane literary debate with your tyrannical master while you pass the time leading to your execution.
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That which could hunger, could starve.
