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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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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Alanis Morissette - I love how she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. Love it or hate it, she's going to say it. And her vocals are crazy; they're amazing, and I also love how her music is really organic.
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We are journeying externally from country to country. We are traveling in historical time, from the present to the distant past. We are traveling inwardly as well, through the music of meditation.
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I like to support local record stores.
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We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.
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There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
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I had to work just as hard as my male colleagues.
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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.
