Octavia E. Butler
Related OCTAVIA BUTLER MARK WAHLBERG PHIL KLAY COLLEEN HOOVER There were no floors, no walls, no ceilings, no windows and the plumbing was nonexistent. Of course,... DAVID UTZ I realized that I was very attracted to her, and there was no point for my delaying it. CATALIN ALUPOAICEI KAREN JOY FOWLER I went to boarding school in the country, so there's no real differentiation between family and ... JAMIE CAMPBELL BOWER GEORGE LUCAS I think that's why I was able to do well in the beginning: because it was such a foreign thing. ... AWKWAFINA GEORGE LUCAS When I was a boy in Salem, Mass., in the 1950s, if you wanted to buy a book, you had to take a train... GARDNER DOZOIS OCTAVIA BUTLER Even as recently as two years ago, when I was there, Cuba seemed wide open. There was no surveillanc... MILES FRIEDEN But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor... SUE MILLER DEYTH BANGER Even though nobody knew that you were in my life, you were the person who brought a raft at every ra... KYUNG-SOOK SHIN LEWIS CARROLL I realized that I was asexual because when I was young, all of my friends started being attracted to... DAVID JAY The change began in Somalia, where we discovered that we were involved in an operation where there w... BOUTROS BOUTROS-GHALI I guess that there isn't a better time for it. I was getting good screens and our guys were getting ... DAVID ALSTON It was a little hard when I had injuries. It was hard to come back because you knew what you were on... JOYA CANFIELD The 1970s were so wonderful for women writers. There were all these women, and they were seen as doi... LISA TUTTLE PAT BENATAR I was brought up in a very open, rural countryside in the middle of nowhere. There were no cell phon... JUNO TEMPLE CHARLES STROSS There were no words exchanged. I had an injury with three of my toenails, he implied that I was faki... GUILLERMO CORIA There were no words exchanged, ... I had an injury with three of my toenails, he implied that I was ... GUILLERMO CORIA There were no words exchanged, ... I had an injury with three of my toenails, he implied that I was ... GUILLERMO CORIA CHRISTINA ENGELA It was a system that was wide open to fraud. All you had to do was call FEMA on the telephone and li... GREGORY KUTZ If no one had ever challenged religious authority, there’d be no democracy, no public schools, wom... MARY GRIFFITH If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it w... RICHARD DONNER SARAH OCKLER And for those of us from communities with historic collective trauma, we must understand that each o... WALIDAH IMARISHA CHRISTINA ENGELA MIKKO HYPPONEN I was there and all the walls were black and the phones were sitting there and not ringing and I was... ALEX AGUILA I saw him wide open in front of the net and gave him a backhand right there. He was able to finish i... ALEX ARTHUR We were third-and-long, so I was thinking first down. That?s really all I was going for. But I was w... JUSTIN BROUSE VICTORIA SCHWAB There was no way we were going to do that again. BRIAN LECLERC ARON RALSTON I stopped acting when I was 19. The only time I acted again was during the war, when there were no o... OTTO PREMINGER It's funny, because when I was in college, all my professors said, 'You should do comedy.... RACHAEL HARRIS CHARLIZE THERON Why did you marry Dad, Mom?" MARGARET MCMULLAN I told them no, because they were beat after having driven all the way from Columbus, and there was ... DWAINE KNIGHT He called me up and said, 'Corey, you know, listen, I'm going to let you go,' ... He knew that was a... COREY SIMON He called me up and said, 'Corey, you know, listen, I'm going to let you go,' ... He knew that was ... COREY SIMON Poor Jesus, ... Christianity was founded so many years ago, and because it's all verbal, there were ... SUSAN TAYLOR In many cases, it was from their homes at gunpoint. There were no receipts given or anything else at... WAYNE LAPIERRE I was raised on Westerns. They were part of what going into the movies was. TOBIN BELL I get so sad that sad gets to be.TEGAN QUIN To us, there was Bob Dylan, and there was dad. As for what he meant to other people, that was never ... JAKOB DYLAN He and I together was a terrible idea. We were both unstable, we were both shattered, and there was ... BRITTAINY C. CHERRY Where are You Now? I was there whilst you cried, LUISA NATASHA PARKER It was all very utopian, but it gave one nothing to get, to win, to hold onto. There were no distanc... DAVID PRATT I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943. J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON LORNA LUFT JULIA WARD HOWE I wasn't born a redhead, but I was born to be a redhead. GEORGETTE MOSBACHER BUDDY HACKETT ERIC ALLIN CORNELL There was very little left. It's bad enough losing your kids, but our kids were burned beyond recogn... BOB STAUBLE Star Trek wouldn't die. There were a whole lot of young people who were touched by the thought p... GARY LOCKWOOD Because I was from the Midwest and untrained, I was completely open and ready to try anything. Many ... LAILA ROBINS GARY WOLF It was less than 15 students that were there. The revocation took place because they just didn't hav... JACK MOYER LENA HEADEY TINA FEY Well, you know... I grew up in postwar Britain, when you were lucky to get anything to eat. People i... TIM CURRY It was scary to walk in there and see all those ropes hanging. It brought it to reality. It was like... JEAN PRICE We ran a man-to-man, and then we got in foul trouble, and I had to go into a zone, and I was afraid ... JODI HILLEGASS There was a dead-end street when I got married. It was quiet, peaceful and there were no factories. BETTY ROGERS FAY WRAY There's nothing to indicate any prior involvement in gangs. There was no victim. There were no shots... CASEY DONOVAN As a child, I spent a lot of time wandering around the prairies and in the hills, and there was a se... ARTHUR SLADE No one wanted to loan me anything. My numbers were small because I was just starting. I used all my ... DR. CHAUVET MATT BOMER You know, you lose you're out. So it's time to no matter what, no excuses, to put the ball in the ho... HEATHER EZELL KATE WINSLET It wasn't anything of that. They (employees) were just as pleasant to us [as they could be] and [the... AMY HAYES I looked in the audience. There were no strangers. Everybody was singing and cheering and hugging. T... CELINE DION JULIA CHILD As time begins to pass, I have come to find that what I thought was, wasn't what I thought was so. ASTRAEA L. SKYLAR KAREN JOY FOWLER You need to talk about it, because in my daughter's case, everyone was silent. No one spoke up, so t... VICKI CROMPTON I literally got a private invite for lunch with the Queen. There was just 10 of us. And I was absolu... CHARLOTTE DUJARDIN FLANNERY O'CONNOR I was taking what was there and trying to read the defense in the first half. The shots were there, ... LAUREN SIMMS At that time, we were only open twice a week, two hours a day, and had room for just 24 cars. There ... BURTON FREDERICKSEN FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY I was able to retire at age 48 because I sang in a church choir. It was there that I learned the imp... BOBBY W. MILLER When my grandfather was born, there was no healthcare. There were no airplanes. There were no boats.... JAMIE DIMON CHRISTINA ENGELA When Lofton came into the dugout, he said it was hard to see anything that had any kind of break to ... BRETT MYERS CASSANDRA CLARE When I was in Taiwan, we were there for about 8 months, and I was 11 at the time, so it was definite... DAVID LAMBERT I mean, I grew up with pretty down-to-earth, atheist parents, but I was born a Pisces. MELISSA AUF DER MAUR
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OCTAVIA SPENCER Tough love is the hardest to give. OCTAVIA SPENCER I love working with kids and seeing the light come on when they realize they are smart. It's so ... OCTAVIA SPENCER I don't have one role that I want to play. I guess... I want to be a producer. I want to be an a... OCTAVIA SPENCER You have to create your own path and I'm up to the challenge. OCTAVIA SPENCER Life is too short, and I need to eat. I am my meanest when I haven't had a meal. OCTAVIA SPENCER Christian Louboutin, I love you, but honey, please! But when you have this much weight, you've g... OCTAVIA SPENCER If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really ha... OCTAVIA SPENCER I want to be proactive in bringing about change and enlightening people. OCTAVIA SPENCER The hardest thing about writing, for me, is facing the blank page. OCTAVIA SPENCER If you are unhealthy, start by making small changes to become healthier. You are unique, beautiful, ... OCTAVIA SPENCER If you come out of the gate with a finger pointed, then you really aren't opening the door to an... OCTAVIA SPENCER I think that young women and little girls need to see that they don't have to be the damsel in d... OCTAVIA SPENCER As you make your way along life's tumultuous highways, it's important to note that you shoul... OCTAVIA SPENCER I just think that you have to believe in yourself and you have to work very hard. You can't ever... OCTAVIA SPENCER We all have hourglass figures; your sand just settles in different places. OCTAVIA SPENCER You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and ... OCTAVIA SPENCER To be silent is to be passive. OCTAVIA SPENCER I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. And my reality is that we live in a multifaceted, multic... OCTAVIA SPENCER The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active. OCTAVIA SPENCER You just keep moving forward and doing what you do and hope that it resonates with people. And if it... OCTAVIA SPENCER The reality is that there are so few roles out there for women and for women of color, and I'm a... OCTAVIA SPENCER My idea of success is not Oscars. Am I glad I have that little trinket? Yes, I am. But it depends on... OCTAVIA SPENCER There are fewer and fewer roles that I haven't done already, or archetypes that I haven't pl... OCTAVIA SPENCER I hope that in some way that I can be some sort of beacon of hope, especially because I am not the t... OCTAVIA SPENCER I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to ... OCTAVIA SPENCER The statement that I made and that I think I will continue to make is that racism and bigotry isn... OCTAVIA SPENCER As we women know, there are so many other hurdles that we have to cross that I would love it if we c... OCTAVIA SPENCER City Year resonated with me because when I grew up, we were poor - and an education is a way out of ... OCTAVIA SPENCER What's so great about DreamWorks is that it's run by filmmakers who believe that if it's... OCTAVIA SPENCER Meeting Oprah Winfrey, I cried like a baby. Meeting Steven Spielberg, I cried like a baby. Meeting D... OCTAVIA SPENCER There is so much art can do to enlighten people, no matter what their views might be. If art can'... OCTAVIA SPENCER I will live in TV Land watching 'Columbo.' I also like my 'Forensic Files,' all of t... OCTAVIA SPENCER I think if I weren't so squeamish, I would have been some sort of forensic analyst. And I can... OCTAVIA SPENCER I'm not a fan of 'Gone With the Wind.' I didn't like the movie. I didn't like th... OCTAVIA SPENCER I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see my... OCTAVIA SPENCER I was an intern on a film called 'The Long Walk Home.' OCTAVIA SPENCER I'm probably the most militant person you'll ever meet and I speak my mind without provocati... OCTAVIA SPENCER People want to see more diversity. That's why you have the Kevin Hart making $17 million dollars... OCTAVIA SPENCER There are so few roles out there. And even if it is a film that could be led by a black actress, how... OCTAVIA SPENCER It baffles me that everything is so homogenized, because the world isn't, and yet we continue to... OCTAVIA SPENCER People think that I have this wonderful hourglass figure, but I owe that to designer Tadashi Shoji b... OCTAVIA SPENCER My family supported me before any of this crazy notion of moving out to Hollywood and staking my cla... OCTAVIA SPENCER My mom always told me I could do or be anything I dared to dream, and I always wanted to work in the... OCTAVIA SPENCER If a little black girl in Montgomery, Alabama, or some far-reaching region sees something that I do ... OCTAVIA SPENCER The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived ... OCTAVIA SPENCER I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to d... OCTAVIA SPENCER It was never easy being Cicely Tyson. And it will not be easy being Octavia or Viola Davis. OCTAVIA SPENCER I think diversity is something that should be celebrated because it's who we are as a world, and... OCTAVIA SPENCER There is racism all over the United States. Most Southerners I know, we definitely find ourselves de... OCTAVIA SPENCER It may sound funny, but it's true: I tried to put myself through the 12-step program. I didn'... OCTAVIA SPENCER E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. When
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I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there ... 
The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive. 
I literally went straight to New York City from Iraq, which was bizarre and complicated. I was walki... 
No, I mean earlier. Where’d you go? You weren't here with me because no, nothing happened. I could... 
Octavia Butler often described herself as an outsider, but within science fiction, she was loved as ... 
I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made ... 
I was afraid that science-fiction buffs and everybody would say things like, 'You know, there... 
No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. ... 
What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw! 
You could not see a cloud, because / No cloud was in the sky: / No birds were flying overhead - / Th... 
It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this ... 
I think that if there's one key insight science can bring to fiction, it's that fiction - th... 
Damage report, sir?” Skotchdopole asked, climbing off his console into his seat.
There was no going back to the way things were, because all you ever got was the way things are. One... 
There was no market because there were no Mac viruses. 
There were some people you had to stay away from, people who poisoned everything in reach. Then ther... 
I was accustomed to being in far, far riskier environments. So I thought going into that canyon was ... 
I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was... 
I was born in a blender. 
I was born 'neath a clouded star. 
I was born to be funny. 
I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961. 
I was in Catholic school where you were taught not to lie, ... It's hard to believe a young child at... 
I went out with a friend to a lesbian bar, and I flirted my (butt) off. It was such a great night. I... 
When I was going to school in, like, '84 to '88, you didn't have cell phones. There was ... 
When we were making KONG, I went into the sound room and made an aria of horror sounds. I was in cha... 
When I was in high school, there was no safe haven, there was no outlet for you to speak your mind. 
Mum and dad were very much friends, and up to life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was gro... 
In the 1960s, you could eat anything you wanted, and of course, people were smoking cigarettes and a... 
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It was from feeling oneself that one had reached the last barrier, that it was horrible, but that it... 
The Imperial Senate, ever conscious of the weight of public opinion resting on the tip of the pencil... 
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself. 
First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired o... 
When I was 7 and went to the zoo with my second-grade class, I saw chimpanzee eyes for the first tim... 
You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good st... 
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. 
To destroy is always the first step in any creation. 
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance. 
He without fear is king of the world. 
When I'm 80 and sagging all over, I can tell my grandkids, 'Look, when I was a lad, 'Peo... 
Honestly, what can really be said about 'the Jewish people' as a whole? Is it not a lamentab... 
I never worked less than 16-hour days on South Beach. 
I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.