Octavia Spencer Quotes
My family supported me before any of this crazy notion of moving out to Hollywood and staking my claim. That support has never waned.Octavia Spencer
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I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
Gallant -
As long as there is cash, and the economy is running, all is well. But as a bank, we'll have to test, experiment, try a hundred different things. A few may work, a few may fail, but we have to experiment and try.
Uday Kotak -
Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
Jack Schwartz -
Reverence is fatal to literature.
E. M. Forster -
If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.
Larry Page
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People think that if you have a huge appetite, then you'll be better at it. But actually, it's how you confront the food that is brought to you. You have to be mentally and psychologically prepared.
Takeru Kobayashi -
Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
Barbara Smith -
I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.
Dalai Lama -
My inherent belief is that motherhood is pious, and I am humbled by it.
Madhur Bhandarkar -
The thing is, it really did take us too long to get these recordings done. We've had our rough times in the studio in the past, but after four weeks most of the material would have been recorded. This time it seemed like it just goes on and on.
Ed O'Brien Radiohead -
So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
Florence Nightingale
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I want to be best golfer in the world. But I feel like golf is not everything in my life, but I want to keep doing it, keep working hard, do the best I can on the tour and give back to the tour.
Yani Tseng -
The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
H. Rap Brown -
I always try to block out an hour or so a day to read. Being a writer is a job, and reading helps train my brain in the right direction.
Karin Slaughter -
'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.
A. J. Cook -
Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
Isaac D'Israeli -
Being Somali, being Muslim, it's always something I've been very proud of.
Halima Aden
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In 1995, I had been chosen to make a short presentation about the state of the TV business at a company retreat in Santa Barbara. At the time, I felt we were not real competitors in network television. The studio wasn't prolific; we didn't have much of a brand.
Dana Walden -
Before the 20th century, the ulcer was not a respectable disease. Doctors would say, 'You're under a lot of stress.' Nineteenth-century Europe and America had all these crazy health spas and quack treatments.
Barry Marshall -
We know the parental support, community support, makes a difference. It's not just the metrics of testing and putting pressure on the schools and on the teachers.
Donna Shalala -
I wanna make weird stuff.
Flume -
It is one thing to say Jesus is all you want; until He is all you have and you discover He is all you ever needed.
Vance Havner -
My family supported me before any of this crazy notion of moving out to Hollywood and staking my claim. That support has never waned.
Octavia Spencer