Octavia Spencer Quotes

Christian Louboutin, I love you, but honey, please! But when you have this much weight, you've got to give us a little platform. Sorry! The shoes are stunning though. An ounce of pain, it's worth it.

Octavia Spencer

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LoveI Love YouShoesPainSorry

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Maya Angelou

CourageBe KindPracticeConsistency

The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about what's in style, what's current, what are the trends. Think instead of what you like to read, what do you admire, what you like to listen to in music. What do you like to look at in architecture? Try to make a poem that has some of those qualities.

Robert Pinsky

MusicStyleArchitecturePoetryLook

I started acting when I got a summer job at the Everyman Theater Company with the Neighborhood Youth Corps.

Robert Gossett

JobYouthActingSummerCompanyGot

I am honoured to join education innovators like Ms. Vicky Colbert, Dr. Madhav Chavan, and Sir Fazle Hasan Abed as the fourth WISE Prize for Education Laureate. I accept this prize on behalf of the million girls Camfed is committed to supporting through secondary education.

Ann Cotton

EducationI AmWiseAcceptThrough

I wasn't born an actress, you know. Events made me one.

Jean Harlow

MeYouBornKnowEventsActress

By nature, I tended to trust people and was typically open and transparent... But such transparency would go astray when others saw us out of context or when I gave trust to those few who were unworthy of it.

Stanley A. McChrystal

NatureTrustPeopleTransparencyGo

Since I'm born here, my music will always have some New Orleans elements.

Trombone Shorty

MusicBornNewWillNew Orleans

I listened to a lot of reggae music, a lot of Caribbean, a lot of gospel, a lot of rock, a lot of country, hip-hop... you know, so it just gave me perspective when it came to music and what I liked.

Ro James

MusicPerspectiveMeYouCountry

Dinosaurs are the jumper cables to the human mind. Kids can't curb their enthusiasm when they're in a hall of dinosaurs and mammoths and mammoth hunters and trilobites and giant fish that could chomp up a shark. These natural objects in motion and context make kids want to read; you can't stop them from reading and thinking.

Robert T. Bakker

MindReadingThinkingFishYouStop

Our culture constantly inundates us with new information, and yet our brains capture so little of it. I can spend half a dozen hours reading a book and then have only a foggy notion of what it was about.

Joshua Foer

CultureBookReadingInformationNew

I love Cameron Crowe's 'Say Anything' and 'Almost Famous.' I think those are really great coming-of-age movies.

Jon Watts

LoveGreatThinkFamousSayMovies

We've pitched and even begun development on a number of fantasy worlds that have never seen the light of day. All of those worlds... It's soul-crushing to see them sputter out, one by one. Lost. Like tears. In rain.

Chris Avellone

RainLightDayTearsLostNever

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