Octavia Spencer Quotes
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I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.
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I think what I do in my acting world and what I do in my standup world is bring up a brand that I want to bring across. Once you figure out your brand and what you do, it's kind of easy at that. You end up getting your audience.
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'Skins' is about a group of teenagers in Bristol, and it's all about what they get up to and all the different things they do. I think it's a good show because it's come from a very real place, and there's a lot of young people involved in the writing.
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When I'm doing just music all the time, it can get really overwhelming. It's always challenging to switch it up a bit. And just because you're a musician, it doesn't mean that music is your only creative outlet.
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I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.
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You learn as you grow up, if you're intelligent - or even three-quarter witted - that there's no free lunch. You pay for things in various ways. Living, loving, everything else is a matter of the same principles: you learn to work with what you have.
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I have got the best of both worlds; growing up in Edinburgh and now living outside Glasgow.
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I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.
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So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.
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I want to learn about a different religion. I grew up Catholic, but my grandfather was Jewish. Knowledge about other religions can help you understand your own better. I think it's kind of hypocritical to believe one thing and don't know about any others.
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
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When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils.
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I grew up in North Carolina. My father was a salesperson; he sold textiles.
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I did accents and funny voices for the family when I was growing up.
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The climate at country radio is very, 'Let's keep it up-tempo,' probably best if you're a guy.
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I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins.
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I was a wayward child, very passionate and very determined. If I made up my mind to do something, there was no stopping me.
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You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.
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If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original.
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No pretext, arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.
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Like you can't have a car that can take the kids to schools on Friday and win the grand prix on Saturday, you can't make a microscope that can do it all.
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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
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I was on the stairs coming down when she let him in.
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I probably wanted to be Pam Grier growing up.
