Octavia Spencer Quotes
I don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act.
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We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.
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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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Our life ripples out, and it has influence. That's why it's important that we're at our best and that we're influencing others for the good.
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I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian.
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First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
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Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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I get a lot of influence from pro wrestling. People are like, 'Oh, it's fake.' But it's not about whether the guy wins or loses, it's about how he entertains you the whole time you're watching.
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I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
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Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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I have asked my mom and my sister a couple times if I should post something or not. Or if they think a video is funny.
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It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.
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An employee who's one of hundreds, rather than one of a few, is unlikely to feel personally responsible for helping the organization adapt and change.
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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
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The principles governing Western democracies, of which Israel rightly considers itself a part, are based on the assurance that everyone has a vote, but also that the minority needs to yield to the wishes of the majority.
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Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or humane or peaceful.
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When your heart is first, you can be absent of heart but when you put spirit first, you have a reason for why you do heart.
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The more times and the more different things you try, the more likely it is that you will succeed.
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Even with uncertainty around the future of work in an increasingly automated world, Airbnb will remain a way for women to achieve greater financial independence and social empowerment in the years ahead.
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I loved 'Chicago Code;' I watched that a lot. It was great because it really captured the city - I'm from Chicago, too.
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I don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act.
