Octavia E. Butler Quotes
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I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
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I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
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Reconciliation is a decision that you take in your heart.
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My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
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I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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Starting at 11, I was a movie-theater popcorn girl, a babysitter, a sales clerk - in the Midwest, they start them early!
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I wasn't the most prodigiously talented cricketer in Karnataka, let alone India. Some of my team-mates in my school team could hit the ball cleaner than I do. I had to work through that lack of talent, so to speak, that lack of natural flair. Runs never came easy for me.
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There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.
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Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'
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I was pregnant, and, like, 'Being a mom's going to be easy!' And now I'm like, 'Great.'
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
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Focus on your music and not technology.
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A lot of my fans are young women that are my age. We're all going through the same problems at the same time, so I just tried to be really honest with that.
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Economics pretends to be a science. Its practitioners fill blackboards with equations and clog computers with data. But it is really a faith, or more accurately a set of overlapping and squabbling faiths, each with its own doctrines.
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A 10-pound sack of potatoes lasts a long time.
