Octavia Spencer Quotes
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Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.
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I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget.
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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
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I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.
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What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour.
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I have charity work that I do. I started my own charity, the Friends of the Prostate, and I'm also working on awareness of the deviated septum. I do this because not many people are interested in it. There's also Save the Funnel-web - they're dying out.
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Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
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I was very lucky: I started acting in this highly subsidized German theater world, so there was not so much job insecurity. We had great working conditions, long rehearsal times, well paid.
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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Maui reminded me of San Diego: beautiful, but crowded.
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I am just a plain Jew; I mean have no training.
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I love shorts in the colder climates, because you can wear them with chunky sweaters and jackets. It's cute and funky.
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When it was over my daughter said, 'Oh, I felt so sorry for him - he didn't want to hurt you, he liked you.' That was Victoria. When you visualize him up there on top of the Empire State Building, you do feel sorry for him.
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Whether labeled as such or not, I think every book I've ever written has been, more or less, a romantic suspense. I have always put tremendous effort into making each book a page turner: The harder it is for the reader to put it down, the better I've done my job.
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The art of leadership is not to spend your time measuring, evaluating. It's all about selecting the person. And if you believe you selected the right person, then you give that person the freedom, the authority, the delegation to innovate and to lead with some very simple measure.
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The more you read, the better you are at writing, no matter what you're writing. A lot of songwriters miss that and don't see the connection there, and I've always felt like you're more able to communicate if you have a bigger toolbox to work with.
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Because I've done so many different roles, I don't want to repeat myself. It's getting harder and harder to find something interesting. You never know - I might never make a film again.
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In my judgment, the greatest risks are international terrorist groups like al Qaeda and Hezbollah. The war in Iraq has taken our attention off those priorities.
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Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
