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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As long as we decline to allow sick, uninsured people to just lie down and die on the side of the road, everybody has to have insurance for the health care system to work sanely.
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I can't even remember when I first went, 'I want to be an actress.' It's always been inside of me.
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I didn't say that the Jews are inferior. I didn't even maintain they are a race. I merely saw that the mixture of different cultures didn't work.
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'The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.'
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Black women do not have as many positive images in the media as we should.
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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.
