Octavia Spencer Quotes
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I was raised in Argentina until I was 11 and now I go back there a lot, at least twice a year. It's a country where I feel very comfortable and it represents an important period in my life.
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Dyeing my hair has become a kind of addiction. I can't see myself as anything other than blond. Once you go blond, you stay blond forever.
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My granny was very concerned that we weren't baptised - Mum had been desperate to escape her own Catholic upbringing. But Granny thought we were blighted. Whenever we turned up at her house, she would flick holy water - from the font she kept by the door - over us, in the hope that it would save us from damnation.
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I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know – every audience has its own personality.
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We should all relax about life because you don't have a clue as to what's really going on.
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Design is about creating spaces for people to enjoy and of course, creating moments where you elevate the spirit, but 'design for good' is figuring out a program that not only creates better spaces, but creates jobs, creates new industry and really kind of raises the conversation about how we rebuild.
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Actors can't retire. What would they do?
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None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.
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If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.
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I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.
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I never responded to teaching.
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To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.
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Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe.
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When I go to school, I'm always happy because it's a normal kid thing.
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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
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What we discovered, counter-intuitively, is that when you start killing a cancer cell, one of the things it does in order to survive is to spread even further. It causes itself to form new blood vessels. We've termed this 'reactionary angiogenesis.'
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I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks.
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I think the tricky balance, the most important thing more than the horror is to have a compelling story, compelling drama, a show about great characters that you care about and you want to come back every week to see what they're up to.
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I'll read a book every now and then, but unlike most of my friends I don't always have one on the go.
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You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try.
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As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.
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The most I like about cooking is eating what someone else has cooked.
