Octavia Spencer Quotes

You know, bigotry isn't relevant to just the South. It never was. But I'm very grateful that I don't know what it's like from experience.

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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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• It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

  

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• I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.

  

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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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• Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.

  

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• I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.

  

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• We tend in this country to talk about Democrats and Republicans, and think there's little group over there called Independents that's maybe 2%. That is not the case, and it has not been the case for most of modern American history.

  

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• During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.

  

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• My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.

  

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• I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.

  

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• It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.

  

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• Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.

  

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• I've never been a rap guy, I don't really know that much about rap music, to be honest. I like it, but I think what really happened was just my music seems to work so well with rap music.

  

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• In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.

  

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• Anytime I get to help the firefighters, I will. I'm real lucky to be in a position to help.

  

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• People ask me about fighting in real life and, honestly, it wouldn't look as graceful as it does in film and TV.

  

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• Singing is still my number one. This whole acting thing, it's just for experience, and I just want the people to know that I have other stuff that I really love that I really wanna share with them.

  

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• The connection to place, to the land, the wind, the sun, stars, the moon... it sounds romantic, but it's true - the visceral experience of motion, of moving through time on some amazing machine - a few cars touch on it, but not too many compared to motorcycles. I always felt that any motorcycle journey was special.

  

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• But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.

  

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• You know, bigotry isn't relevant to just the South. It never was. But I'm very grateful that I don't know what it's like from experience.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Experience
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