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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There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.
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Never Googled myself. I use a computer for market quotes and news, but I've never Googled myself. But I have visited their headquarters.
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There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can.
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I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a particular gender or age group rather than convey a more universal appeal.
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If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am! My size is a huge part of me.
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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.
