Octavia Spencer Quotes
It baffles me that everything is so homogenized, because the world isn't, and yet we continue to support things that are so incredibly milquetoast.
Quotes to Explore
-
I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't exist. One is 'Write the movie you'd pay to go see.' Another is 'Never let a character tell me something that the camera can show me.'
-
My first Comic-Con was when I first met Joss Whedon: He introduced me to that world and I'd never been to a convention before that. He and a bunch of the 'Buffy' and 'Angel' writers were all going down in a big van and he invited me along.
-
I've been told I'm too good looking for certain roles, but that's okay, it just motivates me to go deeper.
-
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
-
You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.
-
What sets 'Some Nights' apart from anything we've ever done is the hip-hop influence. Not so much the actual sound of hip-hop, but more the vibrato and the artistry that comes with it. Right now, the artists that seem to be pushing to be the greatest artists and are trying to change the world are hip-hop artists.
-
We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless.
-
Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.
-
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
-
A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.
-
I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.
-
Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.
-
Tel Aviv appeals to me.
-
I was amazed at the support that I got when I was in there. And when I came out people knew that I was back on track. I was interested in working again.
-
My camps are always ten weeks. That's what makes me comfortable.
-
In a perfect world, there would be freedom of religion and freedom for all religions to exercise their religion everywhere.
-
The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
-
I want to be an inspirational model. I want people to look at me and say, 'Wow, she looks healthy.'
-
Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.
-
I have the best habits in the world, and I cannot keep my phone secure.
-
By construction, the world of big data is siloed and segmented and segregated so that successful people, like myself - technologists, well-educated white people, for the most part - benefit from big data, and it's the people on the other side of the economic spectrum, especially people of color, who suffer from it. They suffer from it individually, at different times, at different moments. They never get a clear explanation of what actually happened to them because all these scores are secret and sometimes they don't even know they're being scored.
-
Of all forms of symbolism, language is the most highly developed, most subtle, and most complicated. It has been pointed out that human beings, by agreement, can make anything stand for anything. Now, human beings have agreed, in the course of centuries of mutual dependency, to let the various noises that they can produce
-
I would go for the biggest guy on the team, dump the puck in. I would chase after it because I was very fast. If I wanted to get a big hit, I would have to leap into the guy. The guy would be maybe a 6-3 defenseman, 220, I would leap into this guy and plow him over. He would just fall to the ground. That was my thing.
-
It baffles me that everything is so homogenized, because the world isn't, and yet we continue to support things that are so incredibly milquetoast.
