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Octavia Spencer Quotes

I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.

Octavia Spencer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Family Character Time Myself Woman

I was a homebody growing up.

Jennifer Hudson

Growing Up Growing Up Homebody

With 'Futurama,' I was just worried that somebody would beat us to it; it seemed so obvious that there should be an animated science fiction show set in the future. And one of the reasons why it's not, I learned, is that it's really, really difficult.

Matt Groening

Future Science Why Difficult Beat

I'm not trying to be anyone. You know why other executives always hire phonies? Because they're phonies. They hire phonies because they like phonies. They're comfortable with them.

Roger Ailes

Trying You Know Comfortable Why

The trouble with climate change is it's an extraordinarily diverse and complex issue, but for example if the BBC would let me make some of the programmes I'd like to make on climate change, I bet you there would be a change of emphasis.

Robert Winston

Change Me You Climate Change Trouble

The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the hope of their early civilization. They have for the most part abandoned the hunter state and turned their attention to agricultural pursuits.

Martin Van Buren

Hope Attention Early Country Hunter

I'm a career diplomat. I spent 30 years as a diplomat, out of which seven years as foreign minister. I've always believed in the United Nations as a centre of multilateralism and multilateral diplomacy.

Miroslav Lajcak

Career Always Years Out Diplomacy

Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?

Jules Feiffer

Dare Meaningless Forgive Make Our

The first two crusades brought the flower of European chivalry to Constantinople and restored that spiritual union between Eastern and Western Christendom that had been interrupted by the great schism of the Greek and Roman Churches.

Joseph Jacobs

Flower Great Spiritual First Two

I did it for a living, made a career out of it, but now I've turned it into somewhat of a hobby.

Dick Trickle

Hobby Career Now Living Out Made

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Cornelius Nepos

Government Safe Goodwill Unless

We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.

Chauncey Wright

Science Ignorance Nothing Able Them

I see it in a lot of period pieces where everybody is standing and talking, in a stilted, archaic way, instead of being loose in the world. So, I try to do a little bit of research, just so that I can feel like I'm grounded, but then I try to bring as much of my human understanding that I can, under the filter of it being 1865.

Ato Essandoh

Research World Understanding Talking