Octavia Spencer Quotes

I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.

Octavia Spencer

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People say I'm not good at writing about men. My dad left when I was 16. Give me a break. I'm doing the best I can.

Jennifer Weiner

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When you go into the theatre and the lights dim, you want to entertain people from beginning to end. You want them to be swept up in your story, on the edge of their seats, unable to wait to see what happens next, be blown away and afterwards just go, 'Wow!'

John Lasseter

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Even though I was a reluctant reader in junior high and high school, I found myself writing poems in the back of class.

Matt de la Pena

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'The Girls,' by Lori Lansens, is a ballad, a melancholy song of two very strange, enchanted girls who live out their peculiar, ordinary lives in a rural corner of Canada.

Stacey D'Erasmo

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With a fixed mindset, you believe you are who you are and you cannot change. This creates problems when you're challenged because anything that appears to be more than you can handle is bound to make you feel hopeless and overwhelmed.

Travis Bradberry

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If you know how to live in Vegas you can have the best time.

Tony Curtis

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Presidential aspirants reach for the highest office to satisfy some yearning for greatness or even immortality.

Robert Dallek

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One of the best things that happened for me as a playwright is becoming a comic-book writer.

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

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I produced Run DMC. I produced some early records, lots of records early on.

Russell Simmons

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We work hard on the show. We really believe in the show. It's an enormous privilege to work on a show that has the power to touch people's lives in such a positive way. The fan mail and the e-mail certainly reflect that.

Roma Downey

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Being a swimsuit model that talks so much on Twitter... everyone thinks that I could definitely pull back. You kind of open yourself up to all the criticism. That's definitely a big downside to this whole world. How can you complain about people critiquing your body when you're literally like, 'Look at my body!'

Chrissy Teigen

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Homer, Hesiod, Pythagoras, Plato, and Cicero, just to name a few, all lived in pagan societies. Some of the greatest political and military leaders of all time, such as Alexander the Great, Pericles of Athens, Hannibal of Carthage, and Julius Caesar of Rome, were all pagans, or else living in a pagan society.

Brendan Myers

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