Octavia E. Butler Quotes
Now I have been raped.It happened twice. Once on Monday, and again yesterday. It is my Christmas gift from Christian America.
Quotes to Explore
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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
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As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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Although the evidence at this trial shows that Charles Manson was the leader of the conspiracy to commit these murders, there is no evidence that he actually personally killed any of the seven victims in this case.
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I kind of realize that I have a tendency to choose the kind of films I watched when I was a kid and would go home and pretend with my friends that we were in those movies after we saw them.
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Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
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Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.
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The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
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I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother came from a very wealthy family. She definitely wasn't meant to marry an actor, but she eloped with him one lunch-time.
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You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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I'm completely obsessed with the film versions of 'Superman'.
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The Indian business has largely grown on the back of exports. The domestic markets, as far as our Indian business is concerned, actually have contracted because of the contraction in the medium and heavy commercial vehicle space.
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Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.
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My kids have never seen me scream at anybody. They've never seen an argument. There's never been even a cold silence. And those are things that I grew up with because my parents did end up divorcing.
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I felt that America's duty was not to try to do everything itself, but to foster a sense of commitment that would bring out the best in every country.
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Now I have been raped.It happened twice. Once on Monday, and again yesterday. It is my Christmas gift from Christian America.
