Octavia Spencer Quotes

City Year resonated with me because when I grew up, we were poor - and an education is a way out of poverty. It's a way out of the current situation that can seem isolating and hopeless for some kids.

Octavia Spencer

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EducationCityMePovertyYearWay

When some guy shows up with a shopping bag full of records and CD's and wants me to sign every one plus fifteen pieces of blank paper I wonder what the hell is he doing with all of that?

Jimmy Carl Black

MeShoppingHellBagDoingWonder

It's a disease of critics that once they've labeled someone, it's very hard to change their perspective. It's laziness.

Michael Haneke

ChangePerspectiveSomeoneLaziness

I think of myself as a journalist and a storyteller.

Soledad O'Brien

MyselfThinkI ThinkJournalist

I get the opportunity to play all different ethnicities and not get stereotyped or locked into one. It's been a tremendous advantage, I think.

Tony Shalhoub

OpportunityThinkPlayGetDifferent

I used to think that all great recordings happened at about 3 A.M.

Tom Waits

GreatThinkUsedHappenedAbout

Maybe it's because I came from a small town, but I always did well for myself.

Miles Teller

MyselfSmallSmall TownAlwaysWell

I guess I kind of realized that my whole life isn't one giant press junket. I don't have to be smiling all the time and always have the perfect answer.

Miley Cyrus

LifeTimeSmilingPerfectKind

The social aspects of food are really important to me - my favourite food-related memories are meals I've shared with my family and friends. Posting Instagram pictures of your food and then seeing your friends comment on it is just a modern form of that kinship.

Lisa Hanawalt

FamilyMemoriesFoodMeFriends

I don't look at film that closely about my mechanics of where's my elbow at.

Colin Kaepernick

LookFilmMechanicsAboutElbow

The seminal elements of what makes a story great - challenge, struggle, resolution - are the same whether we're talking about story content for a movie such as 'Rain Man,' or telling a purposeful story to forge new business relationships or conclude a fruitful transaction, such as acquiring an NBA franchise.

Peter Guber

BusinessGreatRainChallengeMan

Does Greenpeace think it can stop whaling in Antarctica by publicly eating whale meat and declaring it delicious? What are these people thinking?

Paul Watson

PeopleEatingThinkThinkingStop

Raffi is arguably the world's most famous children's singer.

Sheila Heti

ChildrenWorldFamousSingerMost

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