Octavia E. Butler Quotes
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I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.
Gabriel Luna -
The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
Rachel Gibson -
I'm constitutionally incapable of working on planes or trains, and airports are definitely out.
Damon Galgut -
You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
Rand Paul -
When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
Madeleine L'Engle -
I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.
Gail Porter
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I'm not really interested in promoting 'Olive' as a series about depression or mental illness.
Frances McDormand -
'Morning Joe' host Mika Brzezinski's personal life is a minefield. Her father is Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, and while one brother is an Obama appointee, the other advises Romney.
Brown Campbell -
The production value of YouTube videos is not there.
Dana Brunetti -
When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.
Jaclyn Smith -
For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't know.
Gavid Hood -
I've definitely had those moments when I think a relationship with somebody is one way, and then it just flips.
Yael Stone
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We didn't gel with Poison and the Bon Jovi. Bon Jovi was the best of the pop metal bands, but we never fit in with the hair metal stuff. We were never as hip as the Chili Peppers. We were in the middle.
Gary Cherone Van Halen -
Daring is not safe against daring men.
Ovid -
No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don't think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There's TV. There's a lot of things.
Karl Lagerfeld -
I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
Walter Mosley -
The rarity is the sudden epiphany or single turning point showing you with dramatic clarity that your marriage is over, although that does happen. Most relationships hover on a precipice for years before one party or the other finally decides it is time to jump, and coming to the decision isn't easy.
Laura Wasser -
I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.
Olivier Martinez
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When I was really little, I wanted to be a taxi driver or a bus driver; I loved the fact that I could play my own music when I wanted. But I can't imagine actually doing that now; I think I'd get bored.
Eliza Doolittle -
Let us advance science to create a better world for all.
Dan Shechtman -
Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to improve productivity, etc.
N. R. Narayana Murthy -
I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.
Lukas Foss -
I'm very artistic - I feel like ever since I was born I've been drawing. I actually have a picture in my room that I painted, and people are always like "Where did you buy that?" It's cool that people are impressed by it.
Maddie Ziegler -
Science fiction is not formulaic.
Octavia E. Butler