Octavia Spencer Quotes
I gravitate to the roles, not necessarily television or film. It's just the fact that, for me, the most interesting roles have been in television.
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Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
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I went from living in the Dominican Republic - every day, my mom and I would cook, or we'd go hang out with the kids - to flying a private jet to Chicago with Zac Efron and Dennis Quaid. People had champagne, and they were going to these amazing restaurants. It was a culture shock. It's important, I think, to have that. To see both sides.
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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Even a cock crows over his own dunghill.
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True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.
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I never wrote my books especially for children.
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I moved to New York - I attended NYU, did a BFA in Acting at NYU. I was really into hip-hop, so I started battling, like '8 Mile.' I used to rap battle.
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I do not support a North American Union. I disagree fundamentally with that, and I think the United States should be governing itself and not being governed by multilateral unions, the United Nations.
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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
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Fame can be annoying, but there are perks too.
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
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The notion of self-care for people who have hundreds of millions of dollars, it doesn't seem like a radical thing.
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Wrestlers are a little more dedicated than, and are different from, the other people, which may be strange.
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The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?
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You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there.
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Although it is true that Hizballah is organized, inspired, financed, and armed by Iran, its main bases in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley are under Syrian military control.
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If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.
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I'm quite an advocate of free trade.
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I know I'm profane. And outspoken.
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I believe that we all have something to share with someone else that can better someone else's life.
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Main thing, really, is I write songs the way I wanna hear them and the way I think the people that come to our shows wanna hear them.
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As an actor, you want to be able to move your character forward into new ground, but also it's really interesting to go backwards and unpeel those layers and the interesting elements of what your character is and what informs the decisions that you make so that you can have as much meat to work with.
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I gravitate to the roles, not necessarily television or film. It's just the fact that, for me, the most interesting roles have been in television.
