Octavia Spencer Quotes
When you give kids the tools necessary to change their destiny, it's really empowering.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.
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People more than ever since I can remember are concerned about being out of step and out of line with their political party and won't cross over. There is nobody, man or woman, who wants to be left out, and people are fearful of that. People are fearful of their leadership as well.
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A novel is not a rant.
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It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.
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I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out.
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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People who are fit are the same as anyone else. The only difference is their level of commitment. If looking good and being fit was easy, everyone would do it! Most people don't want to put in the work or make the sacrifices needed in order to be fit.
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It's not enough to just mildly want what you want. You must wildly want what you want. Nobody ever got their greatest wishes by being wishy-washy. You need to put extreme energy into your power of intention to win what you wanna win.
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I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.
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I am against boycotts in general: boycotts against us as well as anything and everything that can be boycotted.
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Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology of sex, but never warned that the strongest sexual attraction may exist between persons so incompatible in tastes and capacities that they could not endure living together for a week much less a lifetime.
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I lost two brothers in an airplane crash, both of them leaving a wife and kids. When I get to Heaven, that's probably the first question I'd like to ask: 'Why was it necessary?'
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What's interesting about Twitter and the influencers that someone follows - like, say, Shaquille O'Neal - is that they see someone who is using the exact same tools that they have access to, and I think that inspires this hope to be able to really engage with someone like him.
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When you give kids the tools necessary to change their destiny, it's really empowering.
