Octavia Spencer Quotes
There is racism all over the United States. Most Southerners I know, we definitely find ourselves defending our heritage.
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Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
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Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.
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My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think that for those of us who write, when we find a wonderful book written by someone else, we don't really get jealous, we get inspired, and that's kind of the mark of what a good writer is.
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.
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If you don't enjoy it, then putting in the long hours is going to take their toll. If you don't enjoy it, then putting in the long hours is going to take their toll.
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Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.
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I could definitely see myself making a serious movie or a drama in the future.
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The strongest institution in the hands of the European Union is the euro.
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Examine the history of China for 2,000 years back, and then compare it with the Western history of fifty years! Does the government of these foreign countries present such a record of generosity, benevolence, loyalty, and honesty as ours?
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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If you're old enough to be arrested, you're old enough to carry a gun.
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Now, whenever I need to go online, I confine myself to a tight circle: Gmail, MLB.com, NYTimes.com, Slate and maybe Facebook.
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We all should face some failures in life and learn from them. We should accept it and move on.
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The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.
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I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
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Liverpool is a massive club in reputation, but as soon as I came here, it felt like Atletico to me. It is a working city, an honest city. The people work all week, and on Saturday they want to go to Anfield and watch the best team in the world.
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It is so important for designers not to run scared, and not to be too worried about what's safe and what's commercial.
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There is racism all over the United States. Most Southerners I know, we definitely find ourselves defending our heritage.
