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
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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.

  

  Lady Gaga
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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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• I eat a lot of 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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• 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
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• I feel great physically. I feel really good.

  

  Candy Crowley
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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
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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
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• 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
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• 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
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• I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.

  

  Hanif Kureishi
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  • Desire
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• It's always an honour doing anything for your country.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
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• Everything and anything is valuable.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
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• I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.

  

  Kate Hudson
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• I believe luck is preparation meeting opportunity. If you hadn’t been prepared when the opportunity came along, you wouldn’t have been lucky.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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• I love writing. I really look up to Lena Dunham, who writes and directs her show. That's something I might want to do when I'm older.

  

  Maude Apatow
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• I think sometimes in comedy the characters are often sacrificed for the joke, and it's more important for it to be funny than for there to be love.

  

  Jenny Slate
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• With us, people caught on to something on our third album, and that will never be repeated. Basically, I don't really have any complaints about the way that Beach House has grown. I feel like we're still in control of what we're doing, and it's a great time in our existence.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
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• Remember, constantly, that when you talk about 'tense of a subjunctive,' you're not talking about time. You're slipping through degrees of reality.

  

  C. J. Cherryh
  • Time
  • Remember
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• 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
  • Him