Octavia Spencer Quotes
Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in.
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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I've been to a few conventions, you know, when the tax man knocks at the door and the 'Star Wars' convention people say: 'Do you want to come and sign some autographs?'
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People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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As Governor, I've worked to solve problems the New Hampshire way - bringing together Democrats, Republicans and Independents to help hard-working Granite Staters adapt to our changing economy so that everyone has the opportunity to get ahead and stay ahead.
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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One of the advantages of this found footage format is that you can have deliberately badly composed frames. Here we can put a camera in the weirdest angle and it kind of throws you off. You never know what you are supposed to be paying attention to. It's deliberate chaos.
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.
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As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together - failures as an athlete and as a person.
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Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
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People come up and say, 'Hey, I know you!' They're middle-aged women and big burly guys. They say, 'Don't tell anyone, but I watch Felicity, and I think it's great.'
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Each time you present a tour, you're faced with these questions of, 'How do you want to present visual information? How do you want to take the music that we're making on stage and visualize that?'
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I never read comics as a kid. I guess I was lazy and watched cartoons instead.
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Playing Christ, I began to feel shut away from the world. A newspaper became one of my biggest luxuries. I noticed that some of my close friends began treating me with reverence.
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There's no getting around it: Writing is hard, while working with young performers is nearly always a joy.
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How often have I met and disliked writers whose books I love; and conversely, hated the books and then wound up liking the writer? Too often.
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Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in.
