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Octavia E. Butler Quotes

The lovely thing about writing is, well, two things. One, writing fiction allows us to bring an order to our lives that doesn't exist in real life. And two, it allows us to create human characters that we know better than we will ever know anyone in real life.

Octavia E. Butler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Writing Better Create Know

You don't want to be the first person to tell your 5-year-old, like, 'You're going to have a life filled with disappointments and letdowns - enjoy!'

Life Enjoy You Person Want First

Just about everything put out by Top Shelf and Drawn & Quarterly and Fantagraphics is what I keep up with. And once in a while, I'll read the more mainstream comics - I like Grant Morrison's writing and some of Warren Ellis' stuff, although maybe they're more on the fringe of the mainstream.

Writing More Top Everything Out Up

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Man Once Anguish Says

The Cross Movement was a group that was a huge encouragement to me. The music was good. The content was good. It really spoke to my soul. It was good to have them around as someone I could learn from and really pattern myself after.

Good Music Myself Soul Me Learn

When movement isn't enough, you dance, or when speaking isn't enough, you sing. When it's organic, and it's earned like that in a musical, that's when it works, and then there's nothing like it because it's this thing that takes you to a whole 'nother level, you know?

Dance Enough You Know Nothing Level

In Spain and Italy I would not have a life among the fans. Everyone wants to touch you, own you and approach you. I try to be as kind as possible to all my fans, but in those countries I could not do it. There they ask too much from you.

Ruud van Nistelrooy

Life You Too Much Kind Possible Try

I think what's very French is the mixture of comedy with intimacy and a kind of reflectiveness. For U.S. audiences, the nearest thing is Woody Allen.

Think Comedy Kind Intimacy I Think

One of the cornerstones of our democracy is the peaceful transition of power.

Power Democracy Peaceful Transition

I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.

Food Care Want Act Just Stuff

I now need to take a very aggressive approach to having a baby.

Baby Now Having A Baby Need Take

I care about being formally physically attractive in my life, and I think that I am quite vain about my performance. I'm just not vain about how I look while I give the performance.

Life I Am Performance Think Care

At Liverpool, I studied Steven Gerrard all the time and improved my game that way. Here, I absorb all I can from Iniesta and Messi.

Philippe Coutinho

Time Game I Can Way Here Liverpool

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