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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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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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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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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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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In Australia, I'm built up as this comedy hero, which was never my intention.
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I want children.
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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
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Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding's a mystery to me now. You can't go back, your life changes every day.
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Life was treasure. The only treasure.
