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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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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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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Filmmaking is not about gender. You cannot ask a president in a festival like Cannes to have, like, five movies directed by women and five by men.
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It's amazing how far you can get into a plot before you figure out what you're doing.
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The 'styles' are a lie.
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Every day I would wake up and think, 'Today is another missed opportunity to do something important.' After enough days like this, you start feeling like you are getting old, even when you are relatively young. We are all natural entrepreneurs, and being manacled to a desk job is not for us.
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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.
