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.
Viggo Mortensen -
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.
Valeria Mazza -
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.
Natascha McElhone -
I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know – every audience has its own personality.
Vicki Lawrence -
We should all relax about life because you don't have a clue as to what's really going on.
Barry Sonnenfeld -
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.
Cameron Sinclair
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Actors can't retire. What would they do?
Larry Hagman -
None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.
Gail Godwin -
If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.
Lars Ulrich Metallica -
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
Edmund Burke -
I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.
Fareed Zakaria -
I never responded to teaching.
Orlando Bloom
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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.
Kate Chopin -
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.
W. Averell Harriman -
When I go to school, I'm always happy because it's a normal kid thing.
Jackie Evancho -
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
T. S. Eliot -
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.'
Patrick Soon-Shiong -
Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversight responsibilities and with pursuing a principled course of action even in the face of everyone's short-attention spans.
Barbara Olson
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We are tornadoes that pick up fragments with the most varied historical and biological origins. This makes of us -- thankfully -- fickle agglomerations that maintain a fragile equilibrium, that are inconsistent and complex, that can't be reduced to any fixed framework that does not inevitably leave out a great deal. Which is why the more effective stories resemble ramparts from which one can gaze out at everything that has been excluded.
Elena Ferrante -
The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn.
Pat Metheny -
I'll read a book every now and then, but unlike most of my friends I don't always have one on the go.
Jonathan Pryce -
I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I am. So I will cook. I'm an excellent cook. Not many people know that about me.
Patricia Marx -
I thought my family was really funny. Everybody in my family was funny. My mom and dad both have great senses of humor and really saw the funny in stuff, so I think that's probably where it came from. I always try to see the funny in things.
Christine Ebersole -
The most I like about cooking is eating what someone else has cooked.
Octavia Spencer