Octavia Spencer Quotes
You can't be from Montgomery, Alabama, and not have a background in the church. It's at the core of who we are as a people.
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I had to work with a psychiatrist.
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As an actor, you read so many scripts and parts written for Asian-specific characters, and you see a lot of stereotypes and a lot of one-note characters, especially in comedy.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I'm a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I'm happy to be Jewish.
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I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
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I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.
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Our growing, robust economy is able to provide the average American citizen access to the best social program there is - a steady job.
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.
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I came from Canada, where it's freezing cold for seven months out of the year.
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Well, maybe it's because of the rumors they had going around, you know, they had some rumors about Dennis Brown was in the hospital and all that. Well, that is all bull!
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It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.
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I don't feel that as human beings we have an obligation to dislike someone based on their beliefs, and it's OK to have a human reaction to someone even if you feel what they do is hideous and objectionable. You can still enjoy their company and find them interesting to be around.
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Two actors that I had particularly fantastic experiences with include Chris Doubek, a notable indie journeyman who also happened to live in the trailer behind my house, and Violett Beane.
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You can't be from Montgomery, Alabama, and not have a background in the church. It's at the core of who we are as a people.
