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'd love, love, love to do a comedy. I can't imagine being on set and being happy and cheerful. That seems so foreign.
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The greatest texts, I think, first dazzle, then with careful rereading, they instruct. I have learned from Virginia Woolf more than I even know how to articulate.
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Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision.
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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.