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Octavia E. Butler Quotes

Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.

Octavia E. Butler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Science Me Look Science Fiction Nose

Anytime you're away from your home filming, it messes with your head.

Jennifer Lawrence

Home You Head Away Your Anytime

I don't have a problem putting on or cutting weight. I would adapt my training if I'm training for a Light Heavyweight fight by using different techniques and by wearing a weight vest to get used to the extra fighting weight.

Light Training Fight Fighting Adapt

The most amazing thing is being onstage and watching the audience sing every song lyric for lyric.

Amazing Song Watching Audience Sing

I read a quote by James Dean when I was 17; he said, 'I'd rather starve than do a whole bunch of work that I don't care about.' The older I got, the more I understood what he was saying. If I want to do a whole lot of work that I don't care about, then I would probably be working in a law office somewhere.

Work Law Saying Care Said Want

If I make your workplace conducive to walking at lunch, or working out at some time during the day, or I get people to use the stairs more by creating incentives to do such, then people will start doing it naturally.

Time Day People Lunch Start Walking

What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and 'going' with this girl, 'Is this true love?'

Matthew McConaughey

Love Girl True Love Remember Back

My clothes and my interiors are about making people smile.

Matthew Williamson

Smile People Clothes Making About

As a kid growing up in Chicago, I've been shot at before. I remember I very calmly went down on the ground. Afterwards, you're like, 'Omigod.' You just don't have time to think.

Time Growing Up Think Remember You

Mr. Speaker, our Nation must no longer be complacent about underage drinking and its alarming consequences. We must bring this national public health crisis out of the shadow and into the bright light of a national priority.

Lucille Roybal-Allard

Health Light Shadow Consequences Out

Any job I choose has to work with my schedule with my kids. I don't want to miss any of my time with them.

Work Time Job Choose Want Schedule

Cinema connects people: they respond as a group, you feel you are not alone, and you see you are not alone. Capitalism is destroying this social aspect of films, and even empathy, by creating the illusion that you are more important than the next person: 'You will buy this because you are special.' That is horrible.

Alone Empathy People Capitalism You

Always do your best.

Don Miguel Ruiz

Best Do Your Best Always Your

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