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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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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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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I remember in particular my first victory when I achieved a very fast time in what were perfect conditions but since then the wind has always been a factor against me.
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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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I can't say that it's a dream come true because when I was growing up, I never dreamed of playing in the Olympics.
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When you have one kid, you feel like you can jet set around, and you can throw him on the hip, and you get your life done. You don't realize how easy one is until you have two. Now I'm really a mom. Oh, I am a mom now! This is for serious - I am responsible for two people now.
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The movie that's had the most effect on me is Jaws. To this day when I'm in the ocean, I'm hearing that music.
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Honey, beside me, you look like Tony Randall!
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We have not long to live in any event. Let us spend what is left in seeking the unpeopled world behind the sunrise.
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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.
