Octavia Spencer Quotes

The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T.

Octavia Spencer

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• Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.

  

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• I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Kind
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• Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.

  

  Katarina Witt
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  • Woman
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• Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.

  

  Sallust
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• The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.

  

  Utada Hikaru
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• There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.

  

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• There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.

  

  Walead Beshty
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• At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.

  

  Kate Moss
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• I eat a lot of chocolate.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Chocolate
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• I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.

  

  Nathan Lane
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  • Accept
  • Someone

• Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Why
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• I feel great physically. I feel really good.

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Good
  • Great
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• It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Time
  • Different
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• I do this thing with my daughter - I put my hand on her face and shake her head, but really affectionately. But I didn't think, and I did that to Flea.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Think
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  • Daughter

• This is something that I witnessed out on the campaign trail for three years, which is that there is a total disconnect between the rhetoric regarding immigration and the reality. And I'm speaking as a border state.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Reality
  • Immigration
  • Trail

• I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Up
  • War
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• I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.

  

  Hanif Kureishi
  • Good
  • Desire
  • Goodness

• If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.

  

  Rachel Johnson
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• It's frightening and glamorous and exciting at the same time. I wouldn't change it for anything! After the bad and sad times in my life, it's something I want to do.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • Life
  • Time
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• Yes I did when I was at university 30 years ago, just for a short time.

  

  Harriet Harman
  • Time

• Time only has value when it intersects with energy.

  

  Jim Loehr
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Value

• I was in martial arts starting at the age of 14, and I got my black belt by the time I was 18. Soon after, I was teaching an entire school, with about 150 students. It was unbelievably intense because of the self-awareness part of becoming a black belt.

  

  Brad D. Smith
  • Time
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• Shyness is a very curious thing, because, like quicksand, it can strike people are any time, and also, like quicksand, it usually makes its victims look down.

  

  Daniel Handler
  • People
  • Time

• The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Time
  • Sweet
  • Alien