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Octavia E. Butler Quotes

No, I think the future of humanity will be like the past, we'll do what we've always done and there will still be human beings. Granted, there will always be people doing something different and there are a lot of possibilities.

Octavia E. Butler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Future Past People Think Doing Done

Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it.

Jesse Owens

Good Start You Find Believing

Most of the time I'm in khakis and a white T-shirt. I'm a total Gap girl. Super casual, hair in a pony tail and no makeup.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

Girl Time Hair Makeup White T-Shirt

Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me.

John Lithgow

Mother Me Milk Like Shakespeare

The texture and hardship of poverty and eviction is something that I think left the deepest impression on me, and I hope that I try to convey a little bit of that to the reader.

Matthew Desmond

Hope Me Think Poverty Hardship Try

I didn't want to admit that I was falling into a cliche.

Jeff Tweedy

Admit Want Falling Cliche

All my buddies over the years, like Kevin Costner and the guys - I see 'em go here, I see 'em go there - but I just do my work.

Jeff Fahey

Work Go Over Years See I See

I come from a traditional hip-hop background.

Statik Selektah

Hip-Hop Background Come Traditional

The format's better because it gives us a much stronger hand to play when going to the North Koreans unified, with our allies and partners in the region, all of us saying the same thing: telling them their current course is unacceptable.

Mitchell Reiss

Saying Better Stronger Play Hand Us

Any time you talk about your own stuff you sound self-aggrandising.

Chris Isaak

Time You Talk Sound Own Stuff

In the ten years leading up to 2013, quinoa prices nearly tripled on the back of skyrocketing international demand for the latest 'superfood'. The grain had traditionally been cultivated in the high Andean plateau, principally for household consumption. But as prices rose, farmers' incentive to sell it as a cash crop grew.

Arancha Gonzalez

Rose Ten Years Back Farmers High Up

I felt very comfortable working with Jr. NTR. We immediately broke the ice almost the first day. I always found him very down to earth.

Nithya Menen

Day Ice Down Earth Comfortable Him

Writing for children is my... that's my medium, you know, and the medium is the picture book, which is a very particular kind of book. I try to give children what I would give anybody, you know. I become interested in something. I find something fascinating. It has to fascinate me, and then I want to give it to them.

Mordicai Gerstein

Children Me Writing Book Picture