Octavia Spencer Quotes
Every character I get to play has some element of who I am, but there's no fun in playing yourself. At least, for me, there isn't.
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I know when it's getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game time, to warm-ups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode.
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
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There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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I do read some of the scripts from America and, even though the themes or subject of the film is very interesting, and some of the scenes are very interesting, there is a tendency that they have to explain everything. There will be no dilemma.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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A novel - it's also a way of attacking subjects that you cannot confront in the eye.
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I started the business as a computer consulting business, which, coupled to my nickname, Scorpion, formed the full name Scorpion Computer Services.
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Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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The Alanis Morissette tour, everybody thinks that was all sitting around, lighting candles and talking intelligently about synergy and big words. That band was so gnarly. We were such scumbags. Alanis had no idea. We were like Van Halen.
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I think we should balance the federal budget tomorrow. I'm optimistic. I think Americans are optimistic. We went to the moon; we can balance the federal budget.
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I don't really consider myself an impressionist.
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I respect Marvel as a company, and I think they're great, but never in my life have I looked up to being a superhero.
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No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools, for everybody is expected to speak of himself as if he were one.
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America loves to watch people growing and getting better.
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I was recruited to teach 9-year-olds. I taught for two years.
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To be honest, I don't have much time to watch any movies.
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Every character I get to play has some element of who I am, but there's no fun in playing yourself. At least, for me, there isn't.
