Octavia E. Butler Quotes

I talked to members of my family, and did some personal research that didn't really have anything to do with the time and place I was writing about, but that gave me a feeling of the experience of being black in a time and place where it was very difficult to be black.

Octavia E. Butler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 22, 1947 - February 24, 2006

Topics

FamilyTimeExperienceMeResearch

I knew when I was 10 that I wanted to act full-time.

Jenna-Louise Coleman

ActKnewWantedFull-Time

Yeah, I mean, climbing's always been a massive hobby of mine up until, kind of, recent times when I've had family, but no, it's been a driving passion in my life and, uh, I've always wanted to climb the Matterhorn. It was the mountain that, sort of, inspired me to climb, as a youngster. So, it was great to be able to get to do it.

Andy Serkis

LifeFamilyPassionGreatMountain

You see me, I wanted to be fashion designer. I became fashion designer. So I think that everything is possible.

Jean Paul Gaultier

MeFashionThinkYouPossibleSee

Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand.

John Polkinghorne

WorldUnderstandMoreStructureUs

I wanted it to be like a high quality, drive-in movie.

Rob Zombie

QualityHighLikeDrive-InMovie

It's always the minorities who aren't a part of the mainstream who define what the limits... of the majority are going to be.

Rose Bird

LimitsAlwaysDefineGoingMajority

I guess I sort of just feel like I am lucky.

Michelle Pfeiffer

I AmFeelLuckyJustLikeGuess

What keeps me going is those cases, maybe ten a year, where I can make a difference.

Judy Sheindlin

MeMake A DifferenceYearI CanTen

But the thing that will always occupy me the most is music.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

MusicMeWillAlwaysMostThing

What is it in us that makes us feel the need to keep pretending... we gotta let ourselves be.

Christina Aguilera

FeelNeedPretendingKeepUsMakes

I'm a woman. I'm black. I am passionate. I am transparent.

Bozoma Saint John

WomanI AmBlackPassionateAm

I have my dark side like anybody, you know, depression, anxiety... and I write about gritty, real-life stuff.

Art Alexakis

DepressionAnxietyYouDarkKnow

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