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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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 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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All I wanted to do was be a working actor.
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I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13.
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Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased with ourselves and feel, just for once, that everything is going our way.
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You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.
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The Secretary of the State at the time was James Baker, who had also been Secretary of Treasury and White House Chief of Staff: very powerful guy. And I went to see him in his very ornate office at the State Department to say I wasn't going to cover him anymore. It was just a courtesy call.
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Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need them at the times when they need them ... Cosmic forces guide such passings-along.
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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Small paintings can be fantastic. But you can't often get a narrative out of a small painting. In any case, museums are huge places, and you want to take up some space.
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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.
