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Octavia Spencer Quotes

I just think that you have to believe in yourself and you have to work very hard. You can't ever think that you're the best thing since sliced bread because I promise you, there are going to be Viola Davises and Jessica Chastains and Emma Stones who are the best thing since sliced bread. So take it seriously, but don't take it too seriously.

Octavia Spencer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Work Believe In Yourself Best Believe

Writing is very much perceived as something distinct from performance. I don't see it like that.

Writing Performance See Something

I'm really interested in harvesting surplus energy, energy that surrounds but we never really use.

Energy Never Interested Use Really

Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.

Power Political More Political Power

When I was much younger, I realized that when I was handling something very large, and I was on my own doing that, that my breathing rate would increase, and that would affect my ability to think as well as I normally would. So when that starts happening, I slow down.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

Think Slow Doing Down My Own Own

Very rarely do I talk off the top of my head on stage. I'm not an improv guy. I'm a writer-guy who presents what he's written.

Talk Top Stage Head Improv Guy

In terms of the creative side of it, it's really been a thing where you come up with the funny stuff is usually at a bar or out talking to people or whatever.

Funny Creative People Talking You

I've been leading newsrooms for a while now and it's been an honor serving as Editor in Chief of N.J., but I really think that my best shot at moving the needle in politics is by getting close to it - by reading, reporting, tweeting and writing.

Best Politics Moving Writing Reading

I find it hard to write in the first person.

Michiko Kakutani

Find Person Write First Hard

Write what you want to write, write what people want to hear, and write about what they're going through, because if you could connect with the people who are listening to your music and coming to your concerts and coming to your meet and greets, then you're doing your job well.

Music Job People Listening Doing

What you become is what counts.

You Become Counts

Women risked their lives for the right to vote. When I hear people say, 'Oh, I'm not gonna vote,' I just wanna tear their heart out.

Women Heart People Say Vote Right

We hold that an employer is vicariously liable for actionable discrimination caused by a supervisor, but subject to an affirmative defense looking to the reasonableness of the employer's conduct as well as that of a plaintiff victim.

Looking Discrimination Victim Hold

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