Octavia Spencer Quotes
I think the paradigm is shifting with regard to women and what we bring to the industry. I feel very blessed.
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I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.
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Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all 'not of blood'. You don't get it through the blood stream, through heredity. Your parents can give you much, but they cannot give you this.
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My dad was one of four children. His three siblings were female, and he loved and protected them.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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I am always locked in my design studio.
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Don't get between me and a really good picture in the darkroom, because then I want to go straight to the darkroom and develop it. But once that's done, I'm fine.
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Watch your finances like a hawk.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip, but now I like to show them off.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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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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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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I have always loathed working out.
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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I carry an umbrella when I am outdoors and always wear sunscreen, even when I am sitting in front of a computer screen! I never touch coffee or other caffeinated drinks.
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My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.
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It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
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I've had a contemptuous relationship with authority throughout my life. I found myself at odds with authority, and I'm disdainful of blind authority.
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I've got seven kids. The three words you hear most around my house are 'hello', 'goodbye', and 'I'm pregnant'.
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I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
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The Southern Baptist Convention, as you know, decided in the year 2000 that women should not be permitted to be pastors or deacons or chaplains in the military service. Some Southern Baptist seminaries don't even permit women to teach male students. I don't agree with that. But they can go in and quote a few passages of Paul that women should be restricted in their services.
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I think the paradigm is shifting with regard to women and what we bring to the industry. I feel very blessed.
