Octavia E. Butler Quotes

Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned.

Octavia E. Butler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I'm the comedic girl next door and a lot of fun.

Jenny McCarthy

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On Putin's order, corrupt apparatchiks and crony oligarchs rob Russians of their nation's wealth and resources.

John McCain

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Around '62 in Baltimore, all the girls had those big hairdos. And then suddenly, a few of the really hip ones started doing their hair straight. And people panicked. And it was called going 'Joe,' meaning Joe College. And people would say, 'I don't know. Should I be 'Joe'? I can't decide.'

John Waters

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When your voice contradicts reality and truth, the only way to create space for it is to discredit reality and truth.

John Yarmuth

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When I first started doing my comedy act, I just desperately needed material. So I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines. I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy.

Steve Martin

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I like to write at home a lot.

Rodney Atkins

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I'm that person: I will literally do everything to not get out of bed, so I have alarms set for every 15 minutes.

Mirai Nagasu

PersonBedWillEverythingOutGet

True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to.

Don DeLillo

VisionDeepLanguageTrueStructure

I do come from a strong family.

Arlen Specter

FamilyStrongCome

When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to do and don't really believe in.

Anne Carson

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Much of the success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes.

Alice Foote MacDougall

LifeSuccessOpportunityMindOpen

I didn't have no friends or nothing; I was a nerdy kid.

Post Malone

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