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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I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.
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I think technology is spreading, and I think one's experience of technology is going to relate increasingly to class - not so much to country.
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We were born a nation of entrepreneurs. That is why so many people came to this country from so many different nations and cultures around the globe. The entrepreneur sees the opportunity, takes action, and successfully learns from the experience. They go on to create wealth. They become part of that demographic that is called “the rich.” They, not the government, drive the economy and create jobs. Only a mind with an envious, greedy perspective would consider punitively taxing the rich as a viable solution to our fiscal miasma. This is a solution springing from the fount of ignorance and deemed wise only by fools.
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The pro-growth policies and spending restraint of Conservatives work.
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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.
