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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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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I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
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I think, through comedy, sometimes we're allowed to discuss things that you'd never be able to talk about in a drama.
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I don't eat fast food - and neither should you!
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All my gowns have trains on them. I make a train that goes on forever. I love long trains and then I stand there and twirl around and wrap myself up in it.
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You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.
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We do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we'll see what happens.
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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.
