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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If you give a party, you better give it right.
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I truly have a great love for an audience, and I used to want to prove it to them by giving them blood.
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The place where I had freedom most was when I painted. I was completely and utterly myself.
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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.
