Octavia Spencer Quotes
I love working with kids and seeing the light come on when they realize they are smart. It's so beautiful to watch.

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We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.
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I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.
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I know theater can improve the quality of people's lives, and I know theater can heal. I've worked as a doctor clown in a hospital for two years. I have seen sick kids and sad parents and doctors be lifted and transported in moments of pure joy. I know theater unites us.
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I don't know how many more times I'll be in New England again. But I leave coach Belichick and those guys with a salute: 'I love you guys. I miss you. I'm out.'
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The beautiful thing about working with new instruments is that you sort of approach it with a fresh perspective.
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You know how you can be romantic? You can be romantic by going to a beautiful setting, sitting on a park bench, and getting good ole-fashioned golden arches, a.k.a. McDonald's. That's probably the best I can do romantically.
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I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn't know what to do with me.
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Free love sounds great.
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I always love listening to Bob Dylan. 'Blood on the Tracks' is one of my favorite albums.
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This may sound funny, but I feel my most beautiful when I'm clean, fresh out of the bath. I don't have to be dressed up. I could be in comfy clothes at home hanging out with my family.
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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
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One of the greatest gifts God ever gave to humanity was that of liberty. We love freedom and bloom under it. We cannot and should not try to force people to live by a certain religious code. To do so negates our free will.
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The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages.
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To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.
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Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.
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I love to pitch things that I believe in and products that I love to use.
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Personally, I'm not into reality shows - I can't even name a reality show that I was a really big fan of, altogether as a whole, not just from MTV. Like, if ABC has another reality show, I'm like, 'Oh God, another reality show.' But people love them. 'The Hills', 'Laguna Beach'... those do extremely well. It's just a personal preference.
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Theater is where you go to find out something new that you don't know. It goes through somebody's brain and comes out in a comprehensible way that is beautiful, that's really interesting.
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More than 200,000 kids have had their lives transformed by ARK. I use that word properly.
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I never considered a career in broadcasting, not even as a kid.
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The translation of social media buzz does not really happen. Films do well through word of mouth.
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In the beginning was mechanics.
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I love working with kids and seeing the light come on when they realize they are smart. It's so beautiful to watch.