Octavia E. Butler Quotes

Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun.

Octavia E. Butler

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• I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.

  

  Larisa Oleynik
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Now

• I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Death
  • Scared
  • Ninja

• Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Value

• I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Free
  • Responsibility
  • Media

• I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.'

  

  Teddy Sears
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Live

• Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Sound
  • Wine

• Hot girls have so many options. Sitting at home alone any night of the week and searching the Internet for a dude is on zero hot girls' agendas. So they're definitely not coming after you.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Home
  • Night
  • Alone

• There are no free lunches in life. You have to earn it. I am paying my dues. People have accused me of having it easy because I am Amitabh Bachchan's son. Yes, I am his son, and I've never run away from it. I work hard to make him proud.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Going
  • Hungry
  • Over

• I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Alone
  • Space
  • Creative

• Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Power
  • Help
  • Words

• I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Make
  • Used
  • Watch

• When you had thugs and bullies and killers imposing their will on their own people or other people - if you don't respond to it, it just keeps coming because they're encouraged by their own success.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • Success
  • You

• Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Up
  • Job
  • Dream

• I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Up
  • Day
  • Week

• You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Up
  • God
  • Career

• I think that haredi children should study the core subjects and that their parents must work, and I believe that there are many haredim who think like me and would be glad to discover that someone is fighting the radical functionaries and rabbis who embitter their lives.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Children

• Growing up, I always wanted to sing.

  

  Damian McGinty
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Always

• I probably have over a hundred pairs of high-heel shoes. I collect them. Over however-many years, from, like, the mid-'80s on - yes, I'm that old - I've been in drag several times in my life, and I collect a lot of stuff, and I do have a lot of high-heel shoes that I'm sure a lot of people would be jealous about.

  

  Chris March
  • People
  • Life
  • High

• One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • People
  • Poetry
  • Poet

• I did one touring show with Horatio Sanz. We went to, I think it was Iowa State University, and we were in this field house, so people were sitting on the floor. It started out with 2,500 people in there. We delivered the most mediocre improv, and it went from a crowd of 2,500 to 250 people in the course of 45 minutes. It was grim.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • People
  • Think
  • House

• I think we have too much history. It’s not so important. I think people should have fun and enjoy their own time. I haven’t done much, so why should I waste people’s memory?'

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Writing
  • Fun