Octavia Spencer Quotes
When you see results, you start to wonder, 'What would happen if I had oatmeal instead of sausage for breakfast?' You start to eat better because you feel better.
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Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.
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Ever since I took to the streets when I was 17 to protest at great personal risk against the communist dictatorship, I have been a passionate democrat.
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I've always been a massive fan of John Mayer. I think he's very talented.
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All I wanted to do was be a working actor.
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I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.
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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
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Obama, in pursuit of power, has been as greedy and irresponsible as any Wall Street tycoon in pursuit of money.
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I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.
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I'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but if I look back at my life, I was often happiest when I had very little.
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You have to be brave when you've got a kid.
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This is just rap. I'm not trying to make people think I'm some sort of scientific wizard or inspirational poet.
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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
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There's something so soothing about the hum of Grand Central Station.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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I'm very, very used to hearing no - repeatedly! - and through my experience founding startups, I've learned to view those two little letters not as a final roadblock but as a problem to be solved.
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You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody.
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Any good attacker will always beat a defender who's face-marking you.
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Of course, your voice always sounds better in the shower for some reason, maybe it's just the octaves or, I don't know, the water, I have no idea.
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It is easy to be selfish. It is hard to love who I am. No wonder I am surprised if you do. (p. 199)
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There are no simple answers in life. There is a good and bad in everyone and everything. No decision is made without consequence. No road is taken that doesn't lead to another. What's important is that those roads always be kept open, for there's no telling what wonder they might lead to.
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I don't have much patience with sick people.
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When you see results, you start to wonder, 'What would happen if I had oatmeal instead of sausage for breakfast?' You start to eat better because you feel better.
