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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No, life ends and no, there is nothing elsewhere, and no question now of ever finding again that white speck lost in whiteness, to see if they still lie still in the stress of that storm, or of a worse storm, or in the black dark for good, or the great whiteness unchanging, and if not what they are doing.
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An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.
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The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute.
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I had to come to terms about becoming an addict, which, for a long time, I lied to myself about the status of until I couldn't lie any more, 'cause I was either going to die or get better.
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The course of the line we indicated as forming our grandest terrestrial fold along the shores of Japan returns upon itself. It is an endless fold, an endless band, the common possession of two sciences. It is geological in origin, geographical in effect. It is the wedding ring of geology and geography, uniting them at once and for ever in indissoluble union.
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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.
