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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When people use their hurt and make a triumph in their song, that helps other people.
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Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing.
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The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.
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I've done a lot of comedy recently, so I would really like to explore something else. I am hankering after a really meaty, dramatic role... like Natalie Portman's part in Black Swan.'
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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.
