Octavia Spencer Quotes
It is important to learn as much as you can about the person and then throw it all away so that you're not in any way doing some sort of mimicry.
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Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many people use the term 'zen' and terms like 'nirvana,' 'enlightenment' in an almost superficial way. It's not that complicated.
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If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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I don't have a radio or TV going all the time. It's very important to have awareness, to know when you tense up and then to stop that.
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There are parallels between the music and film worlds, but they're really very different. I feel like they're just two different ways to channel my creativity.
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I'm very conscious of Miguel Cotto's career... I need to do my part on that night to have victory and create my own legacy in this sport of boxing.
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I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.
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I went to Japan and I lived there. I lived in Mexico for a year. I went to Europe. I lived in Canada.
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I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
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The Oscars are a lot different when you are a nominee. You walk around with this big smile on your face, and everyone, even people who work for rival film companies, tells you they voted for you.
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I am a just man.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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I didn't realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.
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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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Algorithms are great, but they're very limited in what they can do as far as playing songs and playing a mood.
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The nation demands a movement which has written upon its banner the internal and external national freedom that it will act as if it were the spiritual, social and political conscience of the nation.
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All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.
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The most important thing for me when I wrote [Origins] was that at the end even if Morrigan loved the player, she had this thing that she believed in, that was so important that she would do it regardless of the player. And I think that a lot of players expected that she would bend herself to do whatever they wanted because they've done the romance, gotten her approval up, and of course she would just sort of follow their destiny. But Morrigan has her own destiny.
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It is important to learn as much as you can about the person and then throw it all away so that you're not in any way doing some sort of mimicry.
