Octavia E. Butler Quotes
She found more gratification in teaching one willing student than a dozen resentful ones.
Octavia E. Butler
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I'm a food addict, that's my downfall.
Valerie Bertinelli
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Some people think I'm a total moron and I would hope most people think I'm very good at what I do.
Dan Abrams
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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I like visualizing a lot, so the night before a competition and right before, I will visualize myself. I'll close my eyes, turn away from everybody, and just see myself doing exactly what I want to accomplish.
Kacy Catanzaro
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I started off in comedy, but that's just where I got my work. I've always been an actor.
Olivia Colman
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With reporting, if you work hard, you can usually pull something out. But writing humor doesn't respond to working hard, necessarily. I mean, you could just sit there and look at the page all day and maybe something will come.
Ian Frazier
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I wear a lot of different jewellery. I love to look for it when I'm abroad or if I find a great antique or vintage shop.
Lily Donaldson
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You can have great sequences with music, but if you don't have the acting you're bored after 15 minutes. Or not bored, but you're like, 'So what?'
Danny Boyle
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My mom was like, 'Get your law degree first, become a lawyer, and then you can tell jokes on the weekends. You can be a lawyer and just throw jokes into your presentations.' Now she's like, 'Listen, you need to come up with new material.' All of a sudden, my mom's a critic.
Maz Jobrani
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In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes.
Dan Simmons
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Probable nor'east to sou'west winds, varying to the soutard and westard and eastard and points between; high and low barometer, sweeping round from place to place; probable areas of rain, snow, hail, and drought, succeeded or preceded by earthquakes with thunder and lightning.
Mark Twain
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She found more gratification in teaching one willing student than a dozen resentful ones.
Octavia E. Butler