Octavia Spencer quote: "I think that young women and little girls need to see that they don't have to be the damsel in distress. They don't have to not show their strength. They don't have to be whatever the stereotype is or the tropes that we go to in our minds."

Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern...
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Weight issues, race issues will always be there and if you allow them to get to you and you allow th...
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You have to get out of your comfort zone in order to grow. And as an actor, you don't become Mer...
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I'll say that I don't think you can throw a stone and not come in contact with someone who k...
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Being a part of a large family is just like a little society: those who fight to the top of the heap...
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Tough love is the hardest to give.
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I love working with kids and seeing the light come on when they realize they are smart. It's so ...
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I don't have one role that I want to play. I guess... I want to be a producer. I want to be an a...
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You have to create your own path and I'm up to the challenge.
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Life is too short, and I need to eat. I am my meanest when I haven't had a meal.
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Christian Louboutin, I love you, but honey, please! But when you have this much weight, you've g...
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If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really ha...
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I want to be proactive in bringing about change and enlightening people.
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The hardest thing about writing, for me, is facing the blank page.
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If you are unhealthy, start by making small changes to become healthier. You are unique, beautiful, ...
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If you come out of the gate with a finger pointed, then you really aren't opening the door to an...
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As you make your way along life's tumultuous highways, it's important to note that you shoul...
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I just think that you have to believe in yourself and you have to work very hard. You can't ever...
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We all have hourglass figures; your sand just settles in different places.
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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and ...
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To be silent is to be passive.
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I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. And my reality is that we live in a multifaceted, multic...
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The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.
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You just keep moving forward and doing what you do and hope that it resonates with people. And if it...
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The reality is that there are so few roles out there for women and for women of color, and I'm a...
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My idea of success is not Oscars. Am I glad I have that little trinket? Yes, I am. But it depends on...
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There are fewer and fewer roles that I haven't done already, or archetypes that I haven't pl...
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I hope that in some way that I can be some sort of beacon of hope, especially because I am not the t...
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to ...
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The statement that I made and that I think I will continue to make is that racism and bigotry isn...
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As we women know, there are so many other hurdles that we have to cross that I would love it if we c...
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City Year resonated with me because when I grew up, we were poor - and an education is a way out of ...
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What's so great about DreamWorks is that it's run by filmmakers who believe that if it's...
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Meeting Oprah Winfrey, I cried like a baby. Meeting Steven Spielberg, I cried like a baby. Meeting D...
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There is so much art can do to enlighten people, no matter what their views might be. If art can'...
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I will live in TV Land watching 'Columbo.' I also like my 'Forensic Files,' all of t...
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I think if I weren't so squeamish, I would have been some sort of forensic analyst. And I can...
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I'm not a fan of 'Gone With the Wind.' I didn't like the movie. I didn't like th...
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I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see my...
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I was an intern on a film called 'The Long Walk Home.'
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I'm probably the most militant person you'll ever meet and I speak my mind without provocati...
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People want to see more diversity. That's why you have the Kevin Hart making $17 million dollars...
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There are so few roles out there. And even if it is a film that could be led by a black actress, how...
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It baffles me that everything is so homogenized, because the world isn't, and yet we continue to...
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People think that I have this wonderful hourglass figure, but I owe that to designer Tadashi Shoji b...
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My family supported me before any of this crazy notion of moving out to Hollywood and staking my cla...
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My mom always told me I could do or be anything I dared to dream, and I always wanted to work in the...
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If a little black girl in Montgomery, Alabama, or some far-reaching region sees something that I do ...
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The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived ...
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I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to d...
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It was never easy being Cicely Tyson. And it will not be easy being Octavia or Viola Davis.
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I think diversity is something that should be celebrated because it's who we are as a world, and...
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There is racism all over the United States. Most Southerners I know, we definitely find ourselves de...
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It may sound funny, but it's true: I tried to put myself through the 12-step program. I didn'...
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You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good st...
OCTAVIA BUTLER

No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. ...
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Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.
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And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there'...
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Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if y...
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Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilitie...
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And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - eve...
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People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's ot...
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No, I think the future of humanity will be like the past, we'll do what we've always done an...
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Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your ow...
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I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.
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While Fledging is a different type of book, The Parable series serve as cautionary tales. I wrote th...
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A workshop is a way of renting an audience, and making sure you're communicating what you think ...
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What I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'...
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I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.
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Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some h...
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Most of us don't have to worry about being shot if we poke our noses outside. So we are comforta...
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Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I...
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Third, for people who aren't doing it already, take classes - they're worthwhile. Workshops ...
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Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilitie...
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Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to l...
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On the other hand, I was very much interested in the way people behaved, the human dance, how they s...
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I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there ...
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I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.
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I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
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Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more...
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I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was t...
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But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illo...
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER

First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired o...
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER

Simple peck-order bullying is only the beginning of the kind of hierarchical behavior that can lead ...
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER

Not everyone has been a bully or the victim of bullies, but everyone has seen bullying, and seeing i...
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER

People who think about time travel stories sometimes think that going back in time would be fun beca...
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER

Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we'...
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER

When I was 7 and went to the zoo with my second-grade class, I saw chimpanzee eyes for the first tim...
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER

In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn.
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER

Most vampires I have discovered are men for some reason. I guess it's because of Dracula; people...
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER

I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write ab...
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER

Delusional pain hurts just as much as pain from actual trauma. So what if it's all in your head?
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER

If vampires were a separate species, and they were into genetic engineering, what would they enginee...
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER

Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as ent...
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER

As a kind of castaway myself, I was happy to escape into the fictional world of someone else's troub...
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER

When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to l...
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER

Movies are extremely imitative of one another. Whatever works, people will try to do it.
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER

In order to rise
From its own ashes
A phoenix
First
Must
Burn.
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Several years ago, when I was about to start a novel, I thought I might get some mileage out of the ...
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER

All that you touch
You Change.

All that you Change
Changes you.

The ...
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There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER

With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except t...
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER

We are a naturally hierarchical species.
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I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not car...
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER

I took classes taught by an elderly woman who wrote children's stories. She was polite about the...
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER

You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and...
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER

The major tragedies in life, there's just no compensation. But the minor ones you can always wri...
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER

I do what I can,' I said. 'When I can do more, I will. You know that.
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER

Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER

A 10-pound sack of potatoes lasts a long time.
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I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER

She lowered her voice to a whisper. “You need to look at some of the niggers they catch and bring ...
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER

Then, somehow, I got caught up in one of Kevin's World War II books - a book of excerpts from the re...
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I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there ...
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
HERBERT SPENCER

Immigration in America is a highly polarized issue and there are passionate views on both sides.
SPENCER BACHUS

Progress requires setbacks; the only sure way to avoid failure is not to try.
HENRY SPENCER

You could give the best audition ever and not get the role or not get a callback because you just we...
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Auditioning is an entirely different part of what we do as actors.
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When you get to the point where you know the material so well and you know the character so well tha...
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I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classe...
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when ...
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I try to be athletic.
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After college, I went into the NBC Page Program. It's one of those great programs that allows ki...
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Being on TV is similar to being an athlete. You get no second chances.
LARA SPENCER

A mom has to be ready for anything.
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If my daughter has a bad dream and wants to get into my bed, I'm a sucker for her sweet face and...
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I love going to tag sales, to auctions.
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I absolutely love American folk art, can't get enough of it.
LARA SPENCER

It's not a bargain if it has bedbugs.
LARA SPENCER

I always recommend rewiring vintage lighting. It's not a bargain if your house burns down.
LARA SPENCER

I love charity thrift stores. Amazing one-of-a-kind pieces at terrific prices, and all the money you...
LARA SPENCER

Finding your style is like putting puzzle pieces together.
LARA SPENCER

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard.
ANNE SPENCER

Education has for its object the formation of character. To curb restive propensities, to awaken dor...
HERBERT SPENCER

All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours ...
HERBERT SPENCER

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's ...
HERBERT SPENCER

Know your lines and don't bump into the furniture.
SPENCER TRACY

We, too, must change as circumstances evolve.
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2005 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly t...
BALDWIN SPENCER

Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the...
BALDWIN SPENCER

It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of c...
BALDWIN SPENCER

There comes a time when what is needed is not just rhetoric, but boots on the ground.
BALDWIN SPENCER

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government; but because of this it requires...
HERBERT SPENCER

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
HERBERT SPENCER

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
HERBERT SPENCER

I was constantly being around artists and Bohemian types.
SPENCER DRYDEN

Science is organised knowledge.
HERBERT SPENCER

In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.
HERBERT SPENCER

Time: that which man is always trying to kill, ends in killing him.
HERBERT SPENCER

It is dangerous for a woman to defy the gods;
To taunt them with the tongue's thin tip,
Or st...
ANNE SPENCER

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the ge...
HERBERT SPENCER

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment t...
HERBERT SPENCER

The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action
HERBERT SPENCER

Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
SPENCER JOHNSON

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
SPENCER TRACY

Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals.
HENRY SPENCER

We're thinking about upgrading from SunOS 4.1.1 to SunOS 3.5.
HENRY SPENCER

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
HERBERT SPENCER

The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is -- a change from an indefinite, incoherent homoge...
HERBERT SPENCER

Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
HERBERT SPENCER

Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
HERBERT SPENCER

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments an...
HERBERT SPENCER

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has, the greater will be his confusion.
HERBERT SPENCER

Aggression which is flagitious when committed by one, is not sanctioned when committed by a host.
HERBERT SPENCER

If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples ...
SPENCER SILVER

Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
SPENCER JOHNSON

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no...
HERBERT SPENCER

Scholars and historians have dubbed the last 100 years the American Century, and I think there can b...
SPENCER ABRAHAM

However, in recent years our nation has seen a sizable influx of illegal immigration that at best hi...
SPENCER BACHUS

Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling ...
SPENCER BACHUS

Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
HERBERT SPENCER

The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogen...
HERBERT SPENCER

I've been learning how to shoot a gun and properly handcuff people so that on the day I need to ...
SPENCER GRAMMER

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
HERBERT SPENCER

Unless you paddle for the wave, you'll never know if you could catch it. But once you do... Ride...
ABIGAIL SPENCER

I love everything from country to alternative to Blink-182 and '90s music to Dave Matthews.
SPENCER BOLDMAN

Sometimes people wonder why aeroplanes are so cheap and rockets are so expensive. Even the most supe...
HENRY SPENCER

The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This i...
JOHN SPENCER

When I was ten, I loved movies like 'Cool Hand Luke' and 'Roman Holiday.' When I wat...
SPENCER BOLDMAN

I was taking myself very seriously when I was going through life changes. And I realized that I need...
SPENCER JOHNSON

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical mora...
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Netflix has such a knack for giving a new life to those B-movies that you thought and hoped no one w...
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I remember hearing stories from my mother and father about their parents and grandparents when they ...
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'Greek' is basically a show about sororities and fraternities. It follows Casey Cartwright, ...
SPENCER GRAMMER

I always thought that sororities were just made up of cheerleaders from high school. And I kind of p...
SPENCER GRAMMER

Liquid oxygen is one of the cheapest manufactured substances on Earth. In large quantities, it costs...
HENRY SPENCER

I can be a goofball sometimes. I love having a good time and being carefree.
SPENCER BOLDMAN

My dad has an incredible passion for living life, and he's really, really funny, so he definitel...
SPENCER GRAMMER

The failure of woman to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effor...
ANNA SPENCER

A successful woman preacher was once asked "what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the mi...
ANNA SPENCER

It is not alone the fact that women have generally had to spend most of their strength in caring for...
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The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may ...
ANNA SPENCER

I think it's good to have him here because he has that intensity and attitude we need. We will all b...
ANTHONY SPENCER

That's what coach Williams brings to this group: Intensity. He has that hard-nosed attitude.
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Coach Williams has been great for us because he is about intensity. Technique is another thing he st...
ANTHONY SPENCER

Akron has a running game. It didn't seem that way because when they tried it early on we stopped it.
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Stop the run and make them pass. That is how we are operating on defense right now.
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I think that young women and little girls need to see that they don't have to be the damsel in distress. They don't have to not show their strength. They don't have to be whatever the stereotype is or the tropes that we go to in our minds.

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I think that young women and little girls need to see that they don't have to be the damsel in distress. They don't have to not show their strength. They don't have to be whatever the stereotype is or the tropes that we go to in our minds.

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