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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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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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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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
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I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each.
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There are writers whose first drafts are so lean, so skimpy, that they must go back and add words, sentences, paragraphs to make their fiction intelligible or interesting. I don't know any of these writers.
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Every film teaches you something; every experience on every film set with every co-star teaches you something. You learn something new. I think the challenge is to keep working harder and doing better.
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Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience.
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I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy.
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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.
