Octavia Spencer Quotes
I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.
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Countries that managed to rebuild commanding state structures after popular nationalist revolutions - such as China, Vietnam, and Iran - look stable and cohesive when compared with a traditional monarchy such as Thailand or wholly artificial nation-states like Iraq and Syria.
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Younger audiences are into me because I did 'Stuart Little,' and that movie was a very big deal for kids. And in 'Angels in the Outfield,' a generation of kids learned about magic and angels. And then, of course, there are these two blond girls named Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, and I played their nanny on their TV show.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially silent.
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We have shown that it is possible to create a radioactivity characterized by the emission of positive or negative electrons in boron and magnesium by bombardment with alpha rays.
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We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.
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If you don't meet the standards, then you don't qualify.
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There is a strong sentiment within the Tea Party that favors a stronger America on the global stage, and with that comes a strong alliance with the State of Israel.
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DMs are a lot like email - and should have the same privacy protections as a mailed letter.
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I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to be had in going there and pulling two or three books off the shelves.
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I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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You have to decide who you are going to serve - stockholders or your customers.
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I'm competitive. I'd love another chance to be part of a Stanley Cup championship team. That'd be awesome.
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Eight o'clock is hard no matter what network you're on because people have to make a decision to sit down and start watching TV. Every other time slot is a time slot that happens after someone's watching something else.
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I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.
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I'm not a good photographer, not a good writer. I'm a pretty regular person whose insecurity is so pervasive that it makes me always feel vulnerable.
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Everyone lets the present moment slip by, then looks for it as though he thought it were somewhere else.
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No misfortune is worse than underestimating the enemy. Underestimating the enemy, I risk losing my treasure.
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Prognoses which have been made contend that our technology will terminate in pure necromancy. If so, everything we now experience would be only a departure and mechanics would become refined to a degree that would no longer require any crude embodiment. Lights, words, yes even thoughts would be sufficient.
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Most people view success by the results, and I don't.
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The various features and aspects of human life, such as longevity, good health, success, happiness, and so forth, which we consider desirable, are all dependent on kindness and a good heart.
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I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.
