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Octavia E. Butler Quotes

Science fiction, extrasensory perception, and black people are judged by the worst elements they produce.

Octavia E. Butler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Science People Perception Black

I was shooting the third season of 'The Big C' and doing 'The Normal Heart' at the same time on Broadway, and I thought, 'I'll never do anything as difficult as this.'

John Benjamin Hickey

Heart Time Thought Doing Never Big

I never concerned myself with other people's decisions.

Myself People Decisions Never Other

There's something fundamentally grubby about the rich paying people to seek out cracks in the system to hide their money.

Money People Rich Hide Out System

I think the '70s was a much healthier period for music because people were more innovative and creative.

Music Creative People Think More

My wife and I were talking about '90210,' and we were kind of joking around about how many girls I've kissed on the show, and we got lost at, like, 25. That's a lot! I can't say that I haven't enjoyed most of them.

Wife Talking Lost Say Kind Show

The new record started out being about loss, but it's morphed into being about how relationships go on even though one person is not in a body anymore.

Loss Body Person New Relationships

Being involved in 'The Hobbit' has been a huge boost for me. It's really put me on the map and helped me be taken more seriously as an actor.

Me Seriously Actor Map More Been

I wasn't supposed to be walking with Mark Zuckerberg. I wasn't supposed to be interviewing Romney's sons. Why was I doing it? Because I wanted to survive. I wanted to live. I wanted to earn what it means to be an American.

Jose Antonio Vargas

Live Survive American Walking Doing

I've been singing ever since I was little, but I didn't start taking it seriously until I was about 15 or 16.

Singing Start Seriously Little Been

I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA.

Family DNA Irish Saint Patrick's Day

I truly love a classic Caesar salad.

Antoni Porowski

Love Salad Classic Truly Caesar

I'm very humble in terms of knowing that television is an extraordinary collaborative medium and that one person alone cannot make a great TV show.

Alone Great Humble Television Person

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