Octavia Spencer Quotes
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My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.
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It is hard to watch myself. I'm hypercritical, and it's difficult to watch a performance when I may end up being at odds with it - wishing I'd done something differently or that they had edited it a certain way.
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I feel like I grew up in the circus. I know planes, trains and automobiles. And really talented, weird people.
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There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying. Hundreds are wholly absorbed in political schemes and seem to care for nothing but the advancement of their own party. Myriads are buried in business and money matters and seem to neglect everything else but this world.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.
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I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is - this thing that happens to everyone, so I've heard.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.
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I'm a stand-up comic. I'm always doing dates; it's just that, if I'm working on a project or I'm busy, I can't get out on the road or book any shows. Since the beginning of my career, I'm usually out for at least 10-15 dates throughout the year. If I have time, then I try to get at least 30-40 dates.
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When did you last have fun being dignified?
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Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
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I'm always up for going back to the stage.
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MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough.
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You might say that I'm the Michelangelo of the dress business.
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You get callbacks, and they either give it to what they call a 'name' performer, or they decide to go in an entirely different direction.
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If you have injuries, it's tough.
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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.
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I brought in a yogurt master from Turkey. I went to Greece. I was always going back and forth, from New York to Turkey and Greece. The recipe we use has been around hundreds and hundreds of years. Growing up in Turkey, not a day would go by that we wouldn't eat yogurt like this.
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A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.
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As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity.
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My life experience has taught me nothing happens by chance. Even the idea of the ball in a roulette game: it's not chance it ends up in a certain place. It's forces that are at play.
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Too much research can be the writer's enemy. You can spend days on end in the British Library or prowling the streets with a Dictaphone, and it's easy to convince yourself that you're working hard. Often, it can be an excuse not to work; a classic displacement activity.
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You have to create your own path and I'm up to the challenge.
