Octavia Spencer Quotes

What's so great about DreamWorks is that it's run by filmmakers who believe that if it's not broke, don't fix it.

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• That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Music
  • Love
  • Dance

• To be is to do.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Brainy

• Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Democracy
  • Spring
  • Hell

• I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Goal
  • Senate
  • Emissions

• I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and around the margins. You like peach ice cream; I like strawberry ice cream. Both of us like ice cream much better than a smack on the head with two-by-four.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • People
  • Happy
  • Small

• I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Comedy
  • Doing
  • Become

• Time is the devourer of all things.

  

  Ovid
  • Time
  • Things
  • All Things

• The one problem with the Internet for journalists who like doing long form is that any story that's going to involve 16 screens on the web page... that's asking a lot of people.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Long
  • Problem

• If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Up
  • You
  • Look

• The first concert that my parents took me to was in this canyon in Saudi Arabia called Buttermilk Canyon. You sleep under the stars in the desert, and ex-pats - German, Swiss, Canadian, American - would play classical music that filled the whole canyon.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Music
  • American
  • Parents

• Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Mind
  • Love
  • Peace

• I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • Today
  • Reality
  • Everybody

• The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Fun
  • Kind
  • Role

• What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history because it started in New Orleans and Kansas City, under the radar.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Love
  • History
  • City

• Runners exalt the marathon as a public test of private will, when months or years of solitary training, early mornings, lost weekends, rain and pain mature into triumph or surrender. That's one reason the race-day crowds matter, the friends who come to cheer and stomp and flap their signs and push the runners on.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Friends
  • Lost
  • Pain

• I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Always
  • Kid
  • Ever

• I will say this about the Miz: Even though I don't like his wrestling style, he is a very hard worker. I have a huge amount of respect for him, and I want him to do well.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Want
  • Respect
  • Style

• Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Trying
  • School
  • Money

• I routinely oscillate between exultation and despair. Maybe at the end of the day I feel pretty good about what I've written, but the next morning I see that it's crap. Then I start again - make a new outline, do some more research, try to rethink the whole question.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Question

• The first time I saw 'Sunset Boulevard' I was probably eight or nine years old, and it really struck me how it's so simply put and elegant, yet there's so much going on.

  

  Jennifer Lynch
  • Time
  • Sunset

• Between Trump's election and Brexit, there were all sorts of opinions coming out of the woodwork that I thought had died out a long time ago. I was like, 'What's the point?' All we do is bad things. The history of humanity is the history of people exploiting each other.

  

  Clare-Hope Ashitey
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• There were no surprises, because when you sell a pilot based on a pitch, no matter how great the script is, it's going to look different and feel different from what someone imagines in their head. There will always be varying degrees of disappointment or confusion.

  

  Jennifer Konner
  • Great
  • Different
  • Disappointment

• I kinda learned to sing singing to Echo and the Bunnymen songs and Smiths songs: Morrissey would be a big favorite.

  

  James Mercer Broken Bells
  • Singing

• What's so great about DreamWorks is that it's run by filmmakers who believe that if it's not broke, don't fix it.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Fix