Octavia E. Butler Quotes
I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.
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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.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.
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In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
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You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!
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When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about respect; you don't know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something.
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If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
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Had I to do it again, I would have been a math major, probably a double major, and did take a lot of math classes, but I would have taken a lot more.
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I don't accept any money, free products, or anything else of value from the companies whose products I cover or from their public relations or advertising agencies.
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I need to end up with someone who is strong, intelligent, independent, someone I really admire - sensitive, sensuous, warm, a sense of humor.
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On the retail side, I particularly want to emphasize the use of the unique ID, Aadhaar, in building individual credit histories. This will be the foundation of a revolution in retail credit.
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Basically, every band that makes it has some dude with some sense of business. I don't know if our band would've been so successful were it not for Daniel's Kessler insight into how things really work. Daniel was the one who was diligently saying, "We should make a demo, send it out, play shows but not too many shows, get on shows with touring bands that are coming to New York."
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I think people are just haters. When they see people doing well, some people, if there's something wrong, they'll pick at that.
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I respect all religions, but I'm not a deeply religious person. But I try and live life in the right way, respecting other people. I wasn't brought up in a religious way, but I believe there's something out there that looks after you.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
