Octavia E. Butler Quotes
My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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'Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can't stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can't fit on a bumper sticker.
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When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
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I'm interested in playing, not working.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.
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A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.
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If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to Metallica - it wasn't segregated anymore.
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I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know – every audience has its own personality.
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Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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There are other ways to create tension and drama than to have somebody stabbed through the back with a sword.
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The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
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In Britain I love spending time at the St. James's, the Jumeirah Carlton Tower on Cadogan Place, and the Mayfair Hotel. We've got some spectacular hotels tucked away in London, but because I live there, I don't get to spend as much time in them as I probably would like to.
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I love what I do and the music I make and the bands I've done, especially Fall Out Boy. I also love what I love, and I don't care if other people like it.
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Remember, PM is not here to give financial advice. Your interest in the programme may go down as well as up.
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My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.
