Octavia Spencer Quotes
I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.
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I had to work with a psychiatrist.
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We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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Team members need to learn to leverage one another, and that doesn't happen over a golf game or on a phone. It happens by getting together and taking the time to know each other.
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When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
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I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.
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We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?
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The songs I've written that are the strongest, I'm like: 'I don't know where that came from. It just kind of popped out.' You feel you can't take a whole lot of credit for it. I didn't purposefully will it into existence.
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I've never met a woman who thinks they've got a good enough figure - however perfect they look - which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws; they're entirely internal.
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But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.
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The truth is, I have more money than I'm interested in spending. Everyone in my family is taken care of.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.
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People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.
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I'm not one of those people that pretends he doesn't watch himself.
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I knew all along that they wanted me to have me and they knew that I wanted to be here. It was just a matter of negotiating to get that accomplished. It's a deadline league, and they went all the way to the deadline, but I'm just glad to be here.
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When a warrior goes down, you pick up his shield and go play in honor of him.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
