Octavia Spencer Quotes
People want to see something that isn't necessarily somebody walking around in a superhero costume.Octavia Spencer
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I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I'm really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.
Action Bronson -
I always wanted to do things on my own terms, and unfortunately in this industry, that's not something that is easily given. You're at the mercy of other people, but then you still have that drive to continue on. That's an equation for a lot of heartbreak.
Haley Bennett -
I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
Nate Silver -
Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.
Ian Thorpe -
There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
Edmund Phelps -
I don't know the right way to retire.
Barry Sanders
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For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.
Nathaniel Philbrick -
When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.
Rafe Spall -
I have never had the ambition to be famous for nothing. You have to do something with your life.
Gabriella Wilde -
It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.
Saint Ambrose -
You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.
Samantha Fox -
If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
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I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.
Zach Johnson The Fray -
I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.
Olga Kurylenko -
Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
Sam Jaeger -
So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.
Radha Mitchell -
Most of my friends - when I was five, six, seven years old - their dads were working in an auto plant in Detroit until 5:30, and then they were sat in rush hour. They weren't around as much. My dad finished at three o'clock, so he was just around more.
J. K. Simmons -
Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.
Harrison Ford
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Very few people have the guts to come up to you and say, 'Hey, are you gay?'
Lance Bass NSYNC -
For many young people, the minimum wage is a stepping stone to higher employment levels.
Bruce Rauner -
You can't help it as a human being when you're put under so much scrutiny by multiple people, not even just one person in real life, telling you something. It harms you.
Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony -
My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?
Yann Martel -
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
Mark Twain -
People want to see something that isn't necessarily somebody walking around in a superhero costume.
Octavia Spencer