Octavia E. Butler Quotes
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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.
J. G. Ballard -
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.
Manuel Puig -
You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees -
My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.
Calvin Johnson -
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.
Nancy Gibbs -
I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
Octavia Spencer
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
Jack Canfield -
In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
Tadao Ando -
I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
B. B. King -
My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
Dan Gable -
I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
Ziyi Zhang -
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.
Rahul Dravid
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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.
Earl Campbell -
Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'
Salman Rushdie -
I'm certainly not your typical front-man material. Some people love being on stage and really open up, and I'm sort of the opposite of that. I don't crave the spotlight. I'm still not comfortable even talking on stage.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys -
We don't have to look back at da Vinci's work and Albert Einstein's work and Mozart's work. We're actually living in the time period that David Lynch is creating his art. We're so lucky.
Madchen Amick -
To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
Barbara Tuchman -
I have no idea why a guy would bring a jar of peanut butter to a concert.
Iggy Pop
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We want to do for 'Hamlet' what Baz Luhrmann did for 'Romeo and Juliet' in terms of like a really cool kind of re-imagining.
Emile Hirsch -
If I had to pick the critical technology for the 20th century, the bit of social lubricant without which the wheels would've come off the whole enterprise, I'd say it was the sitcom. ... For the first time, society forced onto an enormous number of its citizens the requirement to manage something they had never had to manage before-free time.
Clay Shirky -
I discovered 'Rite of Spring' when I was 21. As a matter of fact, not with orchestra first, because it was still a work which was not often performed. Don't forget that I was 19 in 1944, still the Occupation time. So it was performed slightly after the end of the war, in 1945.
Pierre Boulez -
I starting writing when I was about 13 or 14 years old.
Kelsea Ballerini -
A 10-pound sack of potatoes lasts a long time.
Octavia E. Butler