Octavia Spencer Quotes
My mom always told me I could do or be anything I dared to dream, and I always wanted to work in the movie industry.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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I've found that entrepreneurial success usually comes through great execution, simply by doing a superior job of doing the blocking and tackling.
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My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
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I try to live holistically and avoid conventional medicine.
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But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to exist elements prior to the beginning itself, out of which everything is composed, whatever that be which is called composite.
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Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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It is as difficult to define or classify Islamic cinema as it would be a Christian, Jewish or Buddhist one.
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Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.
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The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.
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The emotions of the game do not change.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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I have a 'Mailer-Breslin and the 51st State' poster, and a neon-pink sign of Raoul's in SoHo, one of my favorite restaurants.
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To me, the flag represents the greatest ideals of the United States of America, not the worst, but different people look at different things and have different feelings about it. That's what freedom of expression is all about.
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My family is from a tiny town in Alabama. So all I wanted to do was get out of this town.
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There are some people who are just plain great at making music. That's not who I am.
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I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously.
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My mom always told me I could do or be anything I dared to dream, and I always wanted to work in the movie industry.
