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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.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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And there was one, beneath black eaves, who thought,Combing with lifted arms her golden hair,Of the lover who hurried towards her through the night;And there was one who dreamed of a sudden deathAs she blew out her light.
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We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.
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Scenes change all the time. Scenes will change while you're shooting them, and you just have to roll with it 'cause that's what makes it funny. It's not being stuck in your character and how you're gonna do something, but to react to other people and to really have a real-life conversation.
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It's the No.1 issue with people I talk to, whether Republican, Democrat or independent. They want to see the way business is done in Washington change.
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I'm a big music person. I compare a lot of my emotions to how something sounds.
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Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.