Octavia E. Butler Quotes
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.
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I've always been a very prolific writer.
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I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what that says. I guess I'm mature for my age.
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Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
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There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
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Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.
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It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to keep them short, which means they're extremely difficult and intense. It sucks.
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Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again.
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Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.
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I don't read books.
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People in Hollywood are going make pictures where ever it's the least expensive to make them.
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The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
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Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.
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Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.
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Tragedy massages the human ego even as comedy deflates it. ... Tragedy pits us against large foes and the trip wire is our own character. ... In comedy we fall afoul of one another. Comedy depends on social life, on our behavior in groups. In tragedy you can observe one human against the gods. In comedy it's one human versus other humans and often one man (or woman if I'm writing it) against her own worst impulses.
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Life was treasure. The only treasure.
