Octavia E. Butler Quotes
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.
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It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.
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I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
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I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.
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Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.
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There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.
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In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
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The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
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I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.
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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
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One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.
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People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.
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What better way to foray into production than with 'Khaidi No 150.' The film is truly close to my heart because it is my father's 150th film.
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Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul.
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As evacuation eases the body, so occasional ejectment of passion seems to appease the agonies of the soul, and dispose to tranquility the agitations of the heart.
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Souls! When have you seen your own soul - that you're so certain you have one?
