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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As long as we set up equality, we'll go in the right direction.
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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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I sat up in bed. My T-shirt was soaking wet. My pillow was wet. My hair was wet. And my room was sticky and humid.
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I believe in giving more than 100% on the field, and I don't really worry about the result if there's great commitment on the field. That's victory for me.
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There are three stages of an actor's career. Young, old, and "You look good".
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I'm very domestic; I love cleaning. I love cooking. I like waiting on people. I just like to make things. I don't break that down to be weakness, or the only things women can do, or putting me back 20 years.
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Disabled veterans are not a bargaining chip.
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The most I like about cooking is eating what someone else has cooked.
