Octavia Spencer Quotes
If a great role comes along, and you are too tall to play it, then I think the role is too small for your talents.
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What really matters is what's on the inside.
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
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I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially silent.
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I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.
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I think I'm a bit odd.
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Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have.
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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The most amazing set where I've shot 'Game of Thrones' is definitely Croatia, in Dubrovnik. It's such a stunning country with lots of good watersports there as well. Just a beautiful, beautiful place.
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Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
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If you do not milk the cow fully, it falls sick.
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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
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I am that weirdo that chooses the difficult route down the side of the street.
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I would go visit my mom on Sundays, and my brother was working on stuff. I'd go in there and sing a little melody, then we started working with words and the next thing you know it was just born organically without really trying.
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People are going to get older and young guys are going to come in and race and get more competitive.
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I have a long-standing interest in what I like to think of as 'forbidden knowledge:' methods of unarmed killing, lock picking, breaking and entry, spy stuff, and other things that the government wants only a few select individuals to know.
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In September 2005, I was three things: the media blogger for 'FishbowlNY,' a maniacal Daily Show fan, and the only person to smuggle a tape recorder and camera into a big Magazine Publishers of America event featuring Jon Stewart interviewing five hotshot magazine editors in an unbelievable bloodbath.
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I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.
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My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.
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My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
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I'm a rock singer, but I love soul, I love blues, and I love theatrical stuff, too, like theatrical rock like Queen and Meat Loaf.
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Artists should agitate and democratize their own work, but they should also work to democratize the arts themselves.
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I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion.
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The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer.
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If a great role comes along, and you are too tall to play it, then I think the role is too small for your talents.
