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Octavia Spencer Quotes

I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could do or be anything. Then I said, 'Maybe I want to be an actor'. And she said, 'Maybe not that'.

Octavia Spencer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Dreams Mom Acting Said Want Actor

Life can be dramatic and funny all in the same day.

Jennifer Aniston

Life Funny Day Same Dramatic

I was a terrible reader as a kid. I mean terrible. Super slow and very unfocused. It took me forever to read a book, and I remember being well into high school and still needing my mom to sit down and read aloud to me so I could pass my English tests and such.

John Corey Whaley

School Me Mom Book High School Slow

We are an important check on the powers of the executive. Our consent is necessary for the president to appoint jurists and powerful government officials and, in many respects, to conduct foreign policy. Whether we are of the same party, we are not the president's subordinates. We are his equal!

John McCain

Government Powerful Party Important

I doubt if the public thought of me as Christ when they next saw me as Temple Houston on television.

Jeffrey Hunter

Me Thought Doubt Television Temple

When a plan or strategy fails, people are tempted to assume it was the wrong vision. Plans and strategies can always be changed and improved. But vision doesn't change. Visions are simply refined with time.

Andy Stanley

Change Vision Time People Strategy

My first true lesson in writing came from Mr. Bowden when I was 16. At my high school, he was the teacher known to be the very best at literature and writing.

Jeff Lindsay

Teacher Best School Writing Lesson

I find it very easy to be alone. I'm a writer, for heaven's sakes!

Simon Mawer

Alone Easy Find Heaven Writer Very

I have certainly enjoyed puzzles since an early age, and things that look like impossible things are often particularly intriguing.

Roger Penrose

Age Impossible Look Early Things

I speak a little bit of Italian, yeah. I understand more than I speak. I speak more of a dialect; my mum's from Naples and my dad's from Sicily, so it comes out little a bit of a cocktail of the Italian language.

Luke Pasqualino

Speak Language Understand More Out

Some people say funny things, but I say things funny.

Don Rickles

Funny People Say Some People Things

Music left my life for a while, to be honest. It wasn't that I didn't like it, but you know, I'm not really a solo player.

Christine McVie

Life Music My Life You Know Solo

I'm a TV addict.

Shanola Hampton

TV Addict