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.Octavia Spencer
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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.
Pankaj Mishra -
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.
Taylor Negron -
All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially silent.
Edgar Wright -
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.
Irene Joliot-Curie -
We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.
Larry Page
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If you don't meet the standards, then you don't qualify.
Harold Ford, Jr. -
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.
Adam Hasner -
DMs are a lot like email - and should have the same privacy protections as a mailed letter.
Adam Cohen -
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.
Ed Stoppard -
You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
Salman Rushdie -
You have to decide who you are going to serve - stockholders or your customers.
Jack Dangermond
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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.
Ed Belfour -
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.
Dan Harmon -
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.
Forest Whitaker -
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.
Sally Mann -
Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind.
Malcolm de Chazal -
I oscillate between being cynical and being naive on a regular basis. I always think that not much shocks me until something much too obvious does.
Rabih Alameddine
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With Millais's paintings, it's microscopic; when he does hair, it's extraordinary: you can see every strand.
Samuel Barnett -
Thou hast thy calling to some palace-floor, Most gracious singer of high poems! where The dancers will break footing, from the care Of watching up thy pregnant lips for more.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
A day without laughter is like living in darkness; you try to find your way around, but you can't see clearly.
Emily Mitchell -
Success is never permanent, and failure is never final.
Mike Ditka -
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.
Octavia Spencer