Octavia E. Butler Quotes
I don't know how much of a market there is for space opera. Just because it's in the movies doesn't mean magazines are buying it.
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I realized I made a big mistake and if I could have it over again, I would do it so much differently.
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All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.
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I got a New York designer to build my dream store here, which is a little bit of Florence in New York. It's like the Duomo on Madison. I got inspired by Santa Maria Novella and all the Renaissance architecture.
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I'm a black woman who loves hair. I enjoy changing my hair, having fun with it - just hair! I go from braids, to weaves, to wigs, to natural hair.
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I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.
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We must do our part to end poverty in Korea so that the next generation doesn't experience what we are going through now.
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I think it's always best to be who you are.
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I think people can tell when you're pandering to them, and they feel insulted. I think that one thing that is really nice about the work that I do is that I can just sort of make mistakes or try out different ideas or be inconsistent and be vulnerable.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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I really like just super dry comedy.
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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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If we are ever to halt climate change and conserve land, water and other resources, not to mention reduce animal suffering, we must celebrate Earth Day every day - at every meal.
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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All of the land of Israel is ours.
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Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.
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All I wanted to do was be a working actor.
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Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.
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If I get to be a legend, I've achieved my goal.
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The ability to choose is at the essential core of our grandeur. Even evil exists because God respects our ability to choose.
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We were too young to know better, and none of us were very aggressive people. It would have helped a lot if just one of us had been aggressive enough to say no.
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At the end of the day, you know yourself best.
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I don't know how much of a market there is for space opera. Just because it's in the movies doesn't mean magazines are buying it.
