Octavia Spencer Quotes
I am not trying to conform to an unrealistic model of beauty. I am, however, being proactive in being the healthiest I can be.
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The options are war versus peace, and I am delighted that, so far, it appears that peaceful negotiation has won the day.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.
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Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
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Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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Everyone's path is really different, and you just have to be in the right place at the right time. 'The X Factor' gave me that chance I needed, that platform.
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I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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There's a lot of heartache because you don't always win. You need loads of determination.
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I fell in love with doing yoga.
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I'm at the transition place myself, still playing high school girls but moving to a stage when I'm playing older roles and going to the places of stillness and wisdom and knowledge and weight. It's exciting and scary.
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In essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge - with much uncertainty in the process, owing to the incompleteness of knowledge.
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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
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I was tested against the best.
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I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.
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If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.
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I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.
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For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, and leaders holding them back, insisting that they wait for decisions or instructions.
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Ann Wilson has an amazing voice and is a brilliant songwriter.
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If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.
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I've got so many big gains to make in the javelin and the shot put. I know I'm not going to be winning the field in those events, but I need to do myself justice.
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I am not trying to conform to an unrealistic model of beauty. I am, however, being proactive in being the healthiest I can be.
