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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Either the car is stationary, or it's on the move.
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I didn't really have any aspirations to do TV when I first decided to be an actor.
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There is no way to undo what happened in the Zimmerman-Martin encounter, but some good can still come of it: it could lead states to repeal their misguided 'Stand your ground' laws.
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You create a work of art. You do not know whether it will get public sanction. Sometimes outstanding films do no business, and sometimes films which are not so good work.
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With every thought we think, we either summon or block a miracle.
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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.
