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Octavia Spencer Quotes

The reality is that there are so few roles out there for women and for women of color, and I'm a character actor, this I know. And I'm getting to see more of the roles that are out there, but there aren't many. And zilch have been studio movies. Zilch.

Octavia Spencer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: May 25, 1970

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Women Character Color Reality Know

The novelist in me is probably hiding behind all the stories I write, looking for ways to connect them and continue the conversation with readers. Maybe I'm writing one long narrative, and each book, however different from the last, is just a chapter.

Me Writing Looking Book Long Write

Not only were the Jewish people beloved, but God himself had taken pains to let them know it. Could there be any clearer sign that he continued to believe in their potential, even without the Temple, to achieve forgiveness and ultimately merit the Temple's rebuilding?

Meir Soloveichik

Forgiveness God People Believe Know

Acting is all I've ever done, and I've nothing else to make comparisons with when anyone asks me whether I've ever wanted anything else out of life. It's given me enough satisfaction so that I haven't wanted or had to look for anything else.

Life Me Enough Look Acting Done

Conversely, beware the man who does nothing but ask you questions about yourself and offers no information about himself. Not only is he keeping you at bay, he is probably not listening to your answers.

Man Yourself Listening Questions You

Do what is best for most people, not just a few. Prevent your elites and growing middle class, those who often benefit most from growth and development, from turning into a special interests group that blocks reforms.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Growth Best People Growing Group

I am not naturally inclined to history or geography - maybe that's why I like to sing about it, because it helps me remember.

History I Am Me Remember Geography

You should do what other people do, unless you have a very good reason not to.

Jordan Peterson

Good People You Reason Should Very

There's no truth anymore.

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

People You Down Go Will Try

I write for myself things that I've gone through.

Myself Write Through Things Gone

That saying, about how you always kill the thing you love, well, it works both ways.

Chuck Palahniuk

Love Saying You Always Well How

When I write short fiction or novellas, I like to leave a hint of the fantastic, of the unreal. If you write a completely fantastic novel with ghosts and everything, the effect is less powerful than if you portray an absolutely realistic situation and, in the middle of this, you put a layer of fantasy, of mystery.

Antonio Munoz Molina

Short Mystery You Powerful Situation

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