Octavia Spencer Quotes
I prefer doing interviews where people don't have to interpret what you say. I'm going to be real honest.
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During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
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Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.
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The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.
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It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.
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Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
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He said, 'From then on, I realized that I was not just abandoned. I was chosen. I was special.' And I think that's the key to understanding Steve Jobs.
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Being Premier is a 24/7 job, so it doesn't create many spaces in order to be able to build relationships.
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America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.
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I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.
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Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
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Because pandemics almost always begin with the transmission of an animal microbe to a human, it's work that takes me all around the globe - from rain forest hunting camps of central Africa to wild animal markets of east Asia.
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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We could hang around for ten years and nobody would care enough to identify us. Therein lies the horror.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
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Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half the time: You're in a hotel room one moment, and the next thing you know, you're onstage performing for 60,000 people, then you're back on an airplane. It's very hectic and I couldn't do it without my family.
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There is a lot of lip service paid in this Congress and downtown at the White House about family values and small business. Who better represents family values and small business than the fishermen and women on the Oregon and California coast.
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TV isn't a wide medium when it comes to boldness on the small screen because of the audience. It reaches out to the audience but keeping the traditions intact.
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It's one thing for other people to see potential in you, and it's quite another for you to understand that and see it in yourself.
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All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. They never, never, never knew.
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We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers.
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I prefer doing interviews where people don't have to interpret what you say. I'm going to be real honest.
