Octavia Spencer Quotes
What I love about Tadashi is that he isn't a designer that designs only for a double-zero. He designs for double-Ds, you know? Women of all shapes and sizes can wear him.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact!
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I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
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For decades, Iran has covertly worked to develop a nuclear weapons program and has repeatedly violated its international obligations.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
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I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
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There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.
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I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them.
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I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have just gone into writing rather than medicine - which is not to say that I didn't also have a great attraction towards the idea of being a healer. Fortunately, I've been able to combine the two in ways I could never possibly have imagined.
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I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
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Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.
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I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each.
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I've banged my head quite a bit. I liked Iron Maiden, Ozzy, AC/DC. And of course, Ratt and Poison.
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We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
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The best way to help the Latino community is to give back. I love giving back; I'm quiet about God and what I do, but we do a lot in the Dominican Republic.
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Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.
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I'm one of those guys who has to have a constant something going inside and in front of my face. If not, I get in trouble.
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Grammys, American Music Awards, successful albums, I'd pick my kids any day over any of it.
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If you don't want to have gay weddings in Mormon churches, that's fine. That's absolutely up to the members of the faith or the leadership of the faith. I would never suggest that the Mormon Church has to consecrate gay unions. But homosexuality runs at a fairly constant rate through all populations. There are many gay Mormons.
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Comedy's really subjective, you know; that's why it's so hard.
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There have never been so many women in the music industry, but they're doing ballads and pop. Where's the new Joan Jetts and the Wanda Jacksons and the Debbie Harrys, all these strong women? I wanna be the woman that rocks.
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The situation now is really very different from the 1980s.
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What I love about Tadashi is that he isn't a designer that designs only for a double-zero. He designs for double-Ds, you know? Women of all shapes and sizes can wear him.
