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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I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.
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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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Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
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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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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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I don't think I realized the extremes of my proportions until I moved to Paris. I thought I'd be 'normal' as a model, but actually, even in that world, I was at one end of the spectrum.
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White Americans, stop apologizing; we live in the greatest country in the history of mankind, and it's there because of our ancestors - those who came to this country and did their very best. And every generation has gotten better at what we're good at.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be.
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Judges should interpret the law, not make it.
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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.
