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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.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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During one of his uncannily well-timed impromptu visits to my restaurant, Union Square Cafe, Pat Cetta taught me how to manage people. Pat was the owner of a storied New York City steakhouse called Sparks, and by that time, he was an old pro at running a fine restaurant.
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Working with Disney is really and truly like working with a family. Everyone is so supportive and so wonderful. I've worked with Disney since I was twelve, and they've given me so many opportunities that I'll forever be grateful for.
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I can't write about nice, easy topics because that won't change the world. And I do want to change the world - one reader at a time.
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Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.
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Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.
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Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
