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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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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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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Gods always behave like the people who make them.
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What we cannot deny is that there's an association between exclusion, segregation, non-violent extremist thinking, and jihadism.
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People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.
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For me, in green and gold, it must be everything or nothing.
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I'm not trying to make anyone forget the Babe; but only to remember Hank Aaron.
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I make movies. I'm not in politics.
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No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.
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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.
