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Octavia Spencer Quotes

I think diversity is something that should be celebrated because it's who we are as a world, and little kids need to be able to turn on the TV and see real-world representations of themselves. It's very important.

Octavia Spencer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Diversity World Think Important Need

I've made some films that were very much image based: 'Anna Karenina' and 'Pan,' for instance.

Joe Wright

Image Made Some Much Very Were

I used to do community theater with Conor Oberst.

Andrew Rannells

Community Used Theater

When you're used to being at a point where you're deadlifting close to 600 pounds, getting to be 5.5 percent body fat and seeing veins in places you shouldn't see them, it kind of skews your understanding of what is normal and OK.

Matt McGorry

Fat Understanding You Seeing Body

There's more to research than just looking up facts. Eventually, you have to make subjective calls. If you're writing a science fiction novel, there's probably some speculative technology in it. You'll have to decide how to project existing technology forward in a plausible way.

Andy Weir

Technology Science Research Writing

It's what you do on the court. Talking's easy.

Stan Van Gundy

Talking Easy You Court

I deal with my sons like young men. If they have a problem with something, they come to me. I am the type of dad that will drop everything I am doing for them, and always tell them to talk to me about it.

Tracy Morgan

Men I Am Me Problem Doing Young

Death by starvation is slow.

Mary Hunter Austin

Death Slow Starvation

I'll accept being Phoebe to people for a while longer, given how much fun it was. That's totally fair.

Lisa Kudrow

Fun People Accept Fair Being Much

The blockchain symbolizes a shift in power from the centers to the edges of the networks.

William Mougayar

Power Blockchain Shift Networks

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.

William Reddington Hewlett

Business Beliefs Judgments Proceeds

I am on the side of the working person across the country.

Pramila Jayapal

I Am Country Person Side Working Am

I get pretty focused when I start working on something. And I drink a lot of water, way more than most people.

Nick Woodman

Water People Start Focused Way More