Octavia Spencer Quotes

The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.

Octavia Spencer

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HopeCollegeYouBecomeWildLived

The Lord has done what I wanted Him to do this week. I wanted, primarily, peace about going into pioneer Indian work. And as I analyze my feelings now, I feel quite at ease about saying that tribal work in South American jungles is the general direction of my missionary purpose.

Jim Elliot

WorkPeacePurposeSayingDirection

Everybody that's on a set - from the director to the grips to the electricians - it's all about problem solving. So, as empowered as you can make everybody feel, that's really important.

John Cabrera

FeelProblemYouImportantDirector

They were very supportive parents in all my endeavors. They have very different approaches on how they give advice.

John David Washington

ParentsAdviceGiveDifferentHow

What I really like about 'Grit' - especially being the guy who goes on TV every week and says 'Never Give Up' and who truly tries to live his life to that credo - we recruited 16 people who said, 'I will never give up.' And the only way they can leave the contest is by doing the one thing they said they never would.

John Cena

LifeNever Give UpLivePeopleGrit

If you talk to geneticists they are constantly finding that your genes are being switched on and off because of the environment. Genes alone do not determine an exact path in your life.

Jeffrey Eugenides

LifeAlonePathFindingYouTalk

It's an odd feeling, knowing someone is trying to kill you. On the front line, you learn quickly that if you're in the path of a bullet, you will get hit.

Ross Kemp

PathLearnSomeoneTryingYouWill

I can drink 15 pieces of fruit in a day. Nobody is going to sit down and eat that. I drink about 48 ounces a day. That constitutes about 50 percent of what I eat. And then I have one meal a day, some protein. I restrict calories.

Montel Williams

DayFruitDownI CanNobodyDrink

What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. How odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people.

Douglas Coupland

PeopleAliveHumanSomethingSure

I've always taken a lot of pride that people believed in me as a hero. I tried not to fail them in my life.

Bret Hart

LifeHeroPeopleMePrideMy Life

In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork.

Brad Holland

ArtPeoplePaintingAmericaHobby

There are some problems, and maybe these huge magazines, even, for someone who says, 'Look, I just use an AR-15 for target practice,' but do you really need to be standing there shooting at a silhouette a shot a second or even quicker with that kind of weapon? For what purpose?

Phil Gingrey

PurposePracticeProblemsSomeone

I'm always working on new songs. With the technology these days, any idiot can record on Pro Tools on your laptop. All you have to do is plug a microphone into the input jack and anybody can have their own recording studio. So I'm always down in my basement, singing along to riffs or whoever I'm collaborating with.

Sebastian Bach

TechnologySingingToolsIdiotYou

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