Octavia Spencer Quotes
Let me tell you, my career went from zero to 900. Its hard keeping up with that pace, but I wouldn't trade it for anything else in the world.
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.
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Being evil is easy.
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Back in high school, I didn't ever see a Muslim homecoming king or queen - there was never even anyone nominated. It just seemed for a lot of those events, Muslim kids were not being included, and it was probably our fault too - no one was going for it, but no one was trying to push us to do it, you know?
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I realized that acting isn't necessarily what I love, but it's what I do. But I really do love filmmaking.
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The next time you're driving from New York to Boston on I-95, you should make a little detour in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, to visit the Old Slater Mill national historic landmark. It's the site of what is considered to be the first successful water-powered textile spinning mill in America.
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Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
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I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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I'm just kind of focused on playing the game and try to get better at certain things and wipe the slate clean every night.
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When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.
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I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.
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I am at heart a gentleman.
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I think about dying a lot, every time I fall asleep on a train or a plane I expect to wake up to a crash!
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My job was to build, and that's still my job - and I like that better than interviews.
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When I first saw Dick Gregory on television, growing up in Queens, it was startling and amazing, because nobody else was doing what he was doing.
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So that individuation may be compared to a pyramid in that it is only achieved by the placement of the top stone… The Jews, Ford said. They ain't like anyone else I know. There goes you theory up shits creek. He smiled.
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Let me tell you, my career went from zero to 900. Its hard keeping up with that pace, but I wouldn't trade it for anything else in the world.
