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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There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind.
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I grew up on the side of the stage. I never had a fear of an audience. I never felt like they were separated from us. We were all in the living room, and it happens to be a big living room. I continue to operate on that assumption.
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God doesn't promise security from life's storms but security in life's storms. God doesn't always call the equipped, but he will always equip the called. In the long run, avoiding danger is no safer than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
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Men and women consume one another rapidly in what is called "the act of love," or else settle down to a mild habit of conjugality. We seldom find a mean between these two extremes.
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That which could hunger, could starve.
