Octavia Spencer Quotes
I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.
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In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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A reality that is electronic... Once everybody's got a computer terminal in their home, to satisfy all their needs, all the domestic needs, there'll be a dismantling of the present broadcasting structure, which is far too limited and limiting.
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Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems over a table, not over a battlefield.
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I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.
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Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.
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You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.
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I always have to have my lipstick. Sometimes I have more than one shade: start with one color for the morning, one for night. Sometimes I have a couple shades just in case I need something more powerful for the day.
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Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.
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For most inhabitants of the Arab world, the prevailing cultural attitude toward women - fed and encouraged by Wahhabi doctrine, which is based on Bedouin social norms rather than Islamic jurisprudence - often trumps the rights accorded to women by Islam.
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Information is not just something you download from the Web. The way trees grow and where birds choose to live are much better signs of water quality than all the data being collected by the EPA.
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I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.
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If you have security, you can rebel; if you don't, you hold on to any scraps of it that you have.
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An all-out trade war with China would be damaging to Disney's business and to business in general. It's something I think we have to be very careful about.
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There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.
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When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought 'Lord' was super rad, but really masculine - ever since I was a little kid, I have been really into royals and aristocracy. So to make Lord more feminine, I just put an 'e' on the end! Some people think it's religious, but it's not.
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I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.
