Octavia Spencer Quotes
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My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?
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I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.
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I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.
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I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.
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We're pretty good at putting bunts down and really good at hitting. I know as a pitcher, when you face a pitcher you know can hit, that's not fun. I think taking pride in that, and being able to hit helps your own cause.
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
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Because the show is popular, people do recognize us on the streets.
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But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.
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I'm the kind of girl who thinks about what she's gonna cook for dinner when she's finishing her lunch.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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Sex appeal is in the workplace every day of the week. I'm not saying that's the only calling card, but it's a whole crayon box.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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I am happy that thousands of students, young designers and fashion people will be able to see and study my work in every aspect of it.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
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My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.
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Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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There are worlds beyond worlds and times beyond times, all of them true, all of them real, and all of them (as children know) penetrating each other.
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Fame is really strange. One day you're not famous, and then the next day you are, and the odd thing is that you know intellectually that nothing in the world is different. What mattered to you yesterday are the same things that matter today, and the rules all still apply - yet everyone looks at you differently.
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As a photographer, to have a photo that everybody knows is rare. I’m proud of the image. It’s so different from my other work that they don’t realize I took that photo.
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We all have hourglass figures; your sand just settles in different places.
