Octavia Spencer Quotes
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I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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My dinner spot is usually in front of the TV. I'll grill a steak and whip up a salad and watch 'Hoarders'. I love it because a) I'm kind of voyeuristic, and b) every time I see an episode, I go to the one room where all my unpacked boxes wound up, and I throw out a box of stuff.
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I think, for me, Julian Schnabel set a great precedent in being able to cross over so successfully. I feel like his artwork is kind of big, grand, and bombastic, yet the films that he makes are very beautifully sensitive, and I just feel that his filmmaking sensibility is very different from his artwork.
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I admire people like Kristen Wiig, who is hilarious but also does a lot of really cool films. I would love to have a career like hers.
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In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.
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Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
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One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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The future ain't what it used to be.
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It is a great honor to become Executive Producer of 'Frontline.' David Fanning's mentorship and partnership over the past fifteen years has been extraordinary. I am inspired by his legacy and honored to guide 'Frontline's future.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.
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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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I cannot believe that violence depicted onscreen actually causes people to act out violently. That's oversimplifying the issue. If somebody commits a violent act after seeing violence in a movie, I think the question that needs to be asked is: would that person still have committed the act if he had not seen a violent film?
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It is doubly chimerical to build peace on economic foundations which, in turn, rest on the systematic cultivation of greed and envy, the very forces which drive men into conflict.
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I think my siblings sometimes have to defend me within their social circles - they are both barristers.
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We are most alive when we are loving and actively giving ourselves because we were made to do these things.
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I need this wild life, this freedom.
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I firmly believe that life is an 'and' proposition and not an 'or' one. If you really love something, you just have to try it. The worse that can happen is that you'll be told 'no.'
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My life is exactly the way it needs to be.
