Octavia Spencer Quotes
I didn't realize that diets don't work, and I did not want to diet. I didn't want to do anything that required dieting.
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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Football shape is one thing, and then 'futbol' shape is a completely other thing. It's a whole other level of fitness that you have to work to maintain.
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If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.
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There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.
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There are a lot of factors in the life of an F1 driver which can combine to make you believe that you are somehow above normality. I think that is a mistake to start believing that. But, at the same time, it is important to be confident.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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Chipotles, which are dried jalapeno peppers, give out a terrific smoky flavour - they're warm, earthy and usually not too spicy.
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At least for me, any time I've been in hotbeds of creativity, I got excited about something that wasn't coming from me.
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Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.
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There are wonderful restaurants in London. I love Indian food and I like Arab food, and I go very often to the Arab restaurant Noura.
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And you can't complain about kissing Emma Watson. Isn't that what everyone in the world wants to do? I've known Emma for a few years. She's this amazing capacity of young and vibrant and brilliant, but also a bright, intelligent old soul.
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Sometimes those big bloated superhero movies take themselves too seriously compared to the material they were based on. Am I going to listen to psychoanalysis from someone with a mask?
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I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
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When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.
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People lived in the same apartments for years. You'd meet a group of kids in kindergarten, and you'd still be with them in high school. No one ever left the neighborhood.
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The more you change and stress the body the quicker it's going to adapt and change.
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There is a lot of work to be done to make sure our leaders reflect the people they are supposed to represent. The more diverse a group of decision makers is, the more informed the decision will be. Until we achieve full representation, we all should understand we are falling short of the ideals of our country.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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You're basically on set to help the production. You're helping the actors make it make sense, or maybe you wrote something that doesn't work in the production sense. Most of it is coming up with jokes.
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I didn't realize that diets don't work, and I did not want to diet. I didn't want to do anything that required dieting.
