Octavia Spencer Quotes
I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
Quotes to Explore
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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I'm a huge fan of 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of my favorite shows.
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The next step for me with the Up is how it talks with the rest of the home. It's an object that can tell the home where I am and what I'm doing.
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Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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I want any kid who listens to my music to see that I am confident with all elements of my personality that I can't change.
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Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.
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In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
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I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.
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In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.
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There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.
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Forgiveness is a very personal and intimate thing. Forgiveness is not something that you can speak for others because it includes not only your desire and will, your reflection and intellect, but also your emotions.
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Well, I think I was always sort of reflecting where I was and my sense of surroundings and ecology, urban or country, or foreign, living in Europe, very affected by all of that.
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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
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The development of methods to monitor protein dynamics in cells together with the discovery of specific and general lysosomal inhibitors have resulted in the identification of different classes of cellular proteins, long- and short-lived, and the findings of the differential effects of the inhibitors on these groups.
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We are now going to the Lamanites, to whom we intend to be messengers of instruction... We will show them that in consequence of their transgressions a curse has been inflicted upon them - in the darkness of their skins. We will have intermarriages with them, they marrying our young women, and we taking their young squaws to wife. By these means it is the will of the Lord that the curse of their color shall be removed and they restored to their pristine beauty.
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An entrepreneurial mind is always looking for new opportunities.
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What was the point in satin and lace if it didn't make a man struggle to speak?
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
