Octavia E. Butler Quotes

While Fledging is a different type of book, The Parable series serve as cautionary tales. I wrote the Parable books because of the direction of the country. You can call it save the world fiction, but it clearly doesn't save anything.

Octavia E. Butler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst.

Jim Costa

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The missing link in cosmology is the nature of dark matter and dark energy.

Stephen Hawking

NatureEnergyDarkMatterMissing

People think I'm strong, but actually I wanted to crawl away. I thought, I'm going to live in the country with my horse and I'll get a nine-to-five; I don't need this.

Stella McCartney

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I was fortunate to work a lot, and I worked hard, and I was very devoted to that, and then I earned this jewel box of a life that I felt completely entitled to.

Julia Roberts

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I was 23, and that was my first professional job. Anybody who has curly hair knows you don't want it to be brushed out because it becomes a never-ending tangle.

Judy Davis

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I'm a schoolteacher. That's even worse than being an intellectual. Schoolteachers are not only comic, they're often cold and hungry in this richest land on earth.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

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Martin Luther King Jr. was not just a man of peace. He was a radical pacifist, and so he was against war across the board.

Cornel West

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You can't pretend to be a Sharon Stone or a Marilyn Monroe. You really can't fake that.

Claire Bloom

FakeYouStonePretendReally

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

William Shakespeare

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I want kids to have a chance to dream of becoming something like I did in my life, and when you're living in a home that's dysfunctional and unhealthy that way, you don't dream like that.

Picabo Street

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When you've got eight or nine or ten cables running around with someone trying to operate them, it's too much.

Peter Mayhew

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L.A. can be a tough city, very lonely. A lot of people move here to pursue a dream, and that's understandable. But sometimes it's hard to find genuine friends.

Tye Sheridan

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