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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.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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I just wear jeans, big motorcycle boots and T-shirts that are way too big for me. I like anything that has lived a little bit, that has traces of life on it. Knitwear that's a tiny bit too long because you've pulled it with your hands, or jeans that are starting to get holes.
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I chose a time in the century which had the greatest moments for novels - the late '30s and World War II.
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Will I do something different? Probably, since to be quite blunt about it, what we did the first time resulted in an admittedly somewhat bizarre, but guilty, verdict.
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Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
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I'll probably never put out another album because I'm a tough critic of my work, and I don't think I could come up to those standards any more.
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Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
