Octavia Spencer Quotes
Your parents only want what's best for you. They know a career in the arts usually means living paycheck to paycheck; they just want you to know that you have other options!
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I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.
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I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!
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First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
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No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
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I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
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I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
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I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who's ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but when it rings.
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I don't think God cares a whole lot about the outcome. He cares about the people involved, but I don't think he's a big football fan.
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I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.
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I know it's a guy thing to chest bump, but me and my dancers chest bump before hitting the stage. Not too hard though...ouch!
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I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
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I can't touch Simon anymore.
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I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
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At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men.
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We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment.
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There are no regions in the world as reciprocally integrated as Latin America and the Caribbean, and Europe.
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To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
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The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.
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I definitely want to be with somebody who doesn't feel lost or in my shadow.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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They would have been very let down if they had to leave the theater and he had missed. He would feel badly. Everyone would feel badly. But he never let them down.
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Your parents only want what's best for you. They know a career in the arts usually means living paycheck to paycheck; they just want you to know that you have other options!
