Octavia Spencer Quotes
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People are fed up with the career politicians who created this mess or failed to prevent it and neither was acceptable, and the only way we could change that was by sending a different type of person to Washington.
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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In my career, there have been roles I haven't taken because someone involved with the project gave me a bad vibe. I don't care how much money is on the table: No job is worth feeling uneasy every day.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
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The ghastly thing about being a producer is that, once the curtain goes up, there is nothing you can do. At least when you are in it, you have some measure of control. If something goes wrong, you can maybe put it right. When you are in the audience, there is nothing you can do.
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Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.
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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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To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.
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I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy.
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When I get into the studio, I write from my heart.
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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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Advertising is the life of trade.
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I played piano and was always in the choir. I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute.
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The first time I recorded without Allen Toussaint, I wanted to do doo-wop. Everything I've done since then has got some kind of doo-wop essence in it.
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Pakistan has dozens of laboratories and production and storage sites scattered across the country. After developing warheads with highly enriched uranium, it has more recently tried to do the same with more-powerful and compact plutonium.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
