Octavia E. Butler Quotes
Most of us don't have to worry about being shot of we poke our noses outside. So we are comfortable, but the people I'm writing about are definitely not comfortable, and being shot while they're still inside is a good possibility.
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I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
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I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.
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Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
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Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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I'm an actress, not a pinup.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!
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You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
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When I was about 13, I met the coolest, chicest young woman I had ever seen. She was a neighbor of mine who became a fashion designer and had a small design studio. She taught me so many things about style and fashion. I had always loved making things, so when she told me about her career in fashion, I knew I had found my path.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.
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My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.
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People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
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Somebody's always getting me to come lecture to their writing class, and I don't talk about writing at all, I talk about the business of making a living at this racket.
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My mother lived till she was 95 and never had a line on her face or a frown line. She was beautiful.
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I fell into the theatre because I felt I was doing it well, and I stuck to it for the same reason.
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Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Most of us don't have to worry about being shot of we poke our noses outside. So we are comfortable, but the people I'm writing about are definitely not comfortable, and being shot while they're still inside is a good possibility.
