Octavia E. Butler Quotes
Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.Octavia E. Butler
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What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.
Pat Cadigan -
I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
Jackson Rathbone -
I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
Yves Chauvin -
The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
Gary Lineker -
The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day.
Gabe Paul -
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
Carl Jung
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I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.
Sacha Guitry -
I'm a big fan of Katy Perry.
Zoe McLellan -
Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
Basil Bunting -
I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
M. Night Shyamalan -
I like Modest Mouse. I'm our biggest fan. And enemy. I won't waste people's time by putting out a Modest Mouse record just because. That's fair, right?
Sir Isaac Brock KB -
I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
Rachel Nichols
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I never feel there's anything I can't do.
Daniel Clowes -
It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well.
Halsey -
I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
Fidel Castro -
This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late.
Jack Vance -
I'm not looking to go out there and make a rhythmic Timbaland track.
Taylor Dayne -
No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
H. P. Lovecraft
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I stay true to my lyrics. If I go back and look at them in hindsight, the emotions I had when I wrote them have passed. It feels unjustified to change them.
Paloma Faith -
I hate everything that is rigid. I need freedom.
Kristine Opolais -
There is so much misinformation out there. If you give people even a little bit, it gets blown out of proportion then you have to go put out fires. So it's much easier to say, 'No comment.'
Oren Peli -
I have concluded that Literature is no proper pursuit for a gentleman and that Writing ought never to be consider'd but as an elegant Accomplishment to be indulg'd in with infrequency and Discrimination.
H. P. Lovecraft -
The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.
Kenneth Tynan -
Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.
Octavia E. Butler