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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I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.
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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 have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.
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I am the kind of guy who has never taken myself too seriously. I mean, I am very serious about what I do; I'm very serious about the creative process and everything, but at the end of the day, I am just another lucky geek who got to live out a dream, you know?
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Trotskyism is not a new movement, a new doctrine, but the restoration, the revival of genuine Marxism as it was expounded and practiced in the Russian revolution and in the early days of the Communist International.
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We're so enamored of technological advancements that we fail to think about how to best apply those technologies to what we're trying to achieve. This can mask some very important continuities in the nature of war and their implications for our responsibilities as officers.
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I was very fortunate to be raised with an 'if not you, then who?' mentality, and I count my blessings every day to have the support of my family and especially my wife. She's got a front-row seat on the roller coaster.
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You have to create your own path and I'm up to the challenge.
