Octavia E. Butler Quotes
Some of his neighbors found out what I was doing and offered him fatherly advice. It was dangerous to educate slaves, they warned. Education made blacks dissatisfied with slavery. It spoiled them for field work. The Methodist minister said it made them disobedient, made them want more than the Lord intended them to have.
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When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
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You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support.
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I really love nature. I grew up in the country. But one of the things about nature is that it is beautiful but it's also very dangerous.
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A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.
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This is one hell of a business I picked to be in.
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I don't think it's good for people to know too much about you. With my favourite bands, I don't want to have the inside track on every single aspect of their personal lives.
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There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.
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A lot of people tell me I have to trash-talk more, but I got here with my fists, fighting, not with my mouth.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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My parents met because my father was an actor friend of one of my mom's brothers, but my mother has never set foot on the stage - she's quite shy. So it's a strange thing because people say, 'Oh, coming from acting parents,' when the idea of acting would literally make my mother just want to throw up.
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I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men.
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My normal life is like being on holiday.
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I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.
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The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.
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When we're not on the practice field, I'm watching tape, and when I'm not watching tape, I'm doing body work or something like that.
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If there's anything I'm not pompous about, it's myself or my work. But I seem to be able to play it.
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It is the call of the beauty - robed onesTo worship the great Beauty.It is the call of GodThrough silent intelligencesAnd starburst of feelings.
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Everyone has some dysfunction in their families. They have to deal with it. You don't walk away if you love someone. You help the person.
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Some of his neighbors found out what I was doing and offered him fatherly advice. It was dangerous to educate slaves, they warned. Education made blacks dissatisfied with slavery. It spoiled them for field work. The Methodist minister said it made them disobedient, made them want more than the Lord intended them to have.
