Octavia Spencer Quotes
The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.
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I think India has several advantages in the knowledge sector, in the software sector.
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I need a hobby, and I don't want it to be basketball. I want it to be music. So to get away from music, I do other music.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
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I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
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I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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I moved into this neighborhood, and I was walking on this beach with my kids, and we came across a sign that said, 'Water's polluted, no swimming.' And I didn't have any answers.
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I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!
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There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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I had a stalker break into my house a couple times. They didn't leave any fingerprints or take anything - I was being followed.
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Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.
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I believe in forgiveness.
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Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
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The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
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If I had to put a name to it, I would wish that all my books were entertainments. I think the first thing you've got to do is grab the reader by the ear, and make him sit down and listen. Make him laugh, make him feel. We all want to be entertained at a very high level.
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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectifications of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is essentially an interruption of habits, it can be replaced by new habits. Constituting, as it does, a void, it is soon filled up by a real horror vacuum.
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I had a lot of vocal problems when I was younger. I don't know if it's down to leading a healthier lifestyle or what but my range has increased.
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But you begin to feel as you go on working that unless painting proves its right to exist by being critical and self-judging, it has no reason to exist at all - or is not even possible. The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance.
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The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.
