Octavia Spencer Quotes

Your parents only want what's best for you. They know a career in the arts usually means living paycheck to paycheck; they just want you to know that you have other options!

Octavia Spencer

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BestParentsYouCareerKnowLiving

I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

Joe E. Lewis

MoneyLikeNervesActually

I like to do a couple of yoga classes during the week. Yoga for me is more of an elongating thing.

Jessica Biel

MeWeekMoreLikeYogaThing

The idea that we cause harm by doing what we perceive to be the right thing, that's another theme that interests me. Because most people don't intend to cause harm, they cause harm by doing the right thing - in their mind.

Andrew McCarthy

PeopleMindMeDoing The Right Thing

First of all, let me say, 1:15 in the morning, for 20,000 people to still be here, I wasn't the winner, tennis was. That's awesome. I don't know if I've ever felt so good here before.

Andre Agassi

GoodMorningPeopleMeWinnerKnow

It is my hope that by reducing the tax burden on small business owners that we can help them grow their businesses and, in doing so, create jobs.

John Liu

BusinessHopeSmallGrowDoingHelp

If the agency of the mother in forming the character of her children is, in truth, so considerable, as I think it - if she does so much toward making her son what she would wish him to be - how essential is it that she should be fitted for the beneficial performance of these important duties.

John Marshall

MotherSonCharacterTruthChildren

Don't let anyone tell you there's only one way to write.

Amity Gaige

YouWayWriteTellOnlyAnyone

The integration of the simpler and the deeper reading processes is not automatic and requires years of learning by the novice reader, as well as extra milliseconds for any expert to read a more sophisticated text.

Maryanne Wolf

LearningReadingMoreYearsExpert

Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul' or 'Eros.'

Michael Leunig

LoveFreedomCourageArtSoulMe

There's obviously a lot of controversy around the issue of hunting as there is around gambling, and I like these stories where there is a moral dimension, stories that force you to think about your prejudices about a subject and explore the extent to which they are justified.

Louis Theroux

ThinkGamblingYouMoralHunting

The information gained from these techniques was valuable in some instances, but there is no way of knowing whether the same information could have been obtained through other means.

Dennis C. Blair

InformationWayKnowingSameThrough

You can't make movies without known names, and unknowns can't become known, because they can't get work.

Debra Granik

WorkYouMoviesBecomeNamesGet

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