Octavia Spencer Quotes
There are moments where you stop living, if you stop changing, and if you stop seeking growth of some sort.
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I usually decide what to wear in the morning, but sometimes, I'll have a favorite coat or sweater or shoes, and I'll wear them everyday for a week!
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If we don't end war, war will end us.
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There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
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As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
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I like deconstructing things. I like cutting the legs out from under something that feels secret.
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Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
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My centre of who I thought I was was never very consciously about being beautiful or attractive - I think I'm one of those people who's actually grown into their looks.
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I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.
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Television has shied away from being too dark, because so much has happened to us recently here in the West, and people are sort of wanting to see more uplifting sorts of things.
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There's no person I aspire to be. I'm just doing my own thing and seeing what happens - not looking to something and trying to be that.
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I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.
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I've just sort of jumped into relationships and moved in with people way too soon.
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I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti.
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My great-grandmother lived to be 100 years old, so I got to know her. She always sent us birthday cards that had $2 bills inside - we kept them for good luck.
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A Kindle returns us to the inconvenience of the scroll, except with batteries and electronic glitches. It's as handy as bringing Homer along to recite the 'Iliad' while playing a lyre.
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Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?
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I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.
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Genes are natural resources.
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I didn't want my genome to be sequenced by any of the companies that were out there doing the partial sequences just from the point of view of commercialisation.
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As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer to their view of the evil of modernity.
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There are moments where you stop living, if you stop changing, and if you stop seeking growth of some sort.
