Octavia E. Butler Quotes

A workshop is a way of renting an audience, and making sure you're communicating what you think you're communicating. It's so easy as a young writer to think you're been very clear when in fact you haven't.

Octavia E. Butler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ThinkEasyYouYoungWayAudience

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

Jimmy Carter

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That was something that I learned: It's actually okay if the way that I do my best is when I'm treated well.

Jenny Slate

BestWayOkaySomethingWell

I've always worked very hard.

Andrea Riseborough

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When you're spending eight to 10 hours out there, the homeless guy is no longer homeless; it's Dave. They become people to you. I think we're really good in this country about saying that they're homeless and, therefore, they don't exist.

Andy Grammer

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I turned my hand to costume design a few years ago when I created the outfits for 'This Is the Sea,' with Richard Harris and Samantha Morton. It's a very different discipline to being a fashion designer, though - you have to rein in your own vision and work to a tight brief.

John Rocha

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At the end of the day, VCs have to provide their limited partners with great returns, or they aren't going to be able to raise another fund.

Steve Blank

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With 'Titanic,' you have all the first-class passengers interwoven with wonderful stories about the maids and the engineers, the people downstairs in the galleys.

Sophie Winkleman

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A lot of people talk about the Fab Five, and they were wonderful, one of the best teams you'll ever see in college basketball. But the '89 team is the best one to ever play at Michigan in my opinion because they won the national championship. Winning a championship is winning a championship.

Trey Burke

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The Zika virus invades and disrupts the development of the fetal brain, but the effects on the brains of infants and young children are unknown.

Tom Frieden

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I've made my best personal investments when I've been a user of the product. Like Apple. The epiphany for me came when I purchased my fifth iPod and I hadn't unwrapped my fourth. It was still in the plastic case.

Mary Meeker

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We have had to play some mighty tough audiences.

Doc Watson

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Instead of generating either unnecessary alarm or a false sense of security regarding these fundamental issues, the best course is to empower people with the truth.

Dick Thornburgh

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