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You have to create your own path and I'm up to the challenge.

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Octavia Spencer
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: May 25
Actor
Actress
Film Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Montgomery
Alabama
Octavia Lenora Spencer
Octavia L. Spencer
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Challenge
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If you go through life and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.
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I have an affinity for the law. I like looking at the small type on contracts, and if I could have afforded law school, I probably would have gone.
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I do believe that everyone has something to contribute.
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I'm an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I'm going to sing that 'I'm an Oscar nominee' part.
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It's very seldom that we see the good of the South. There is a perception that Southerners are racists and everyone else in the nation is 'enlightened.' There is racism everywhere, and there is good everywhere.
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The fact that women are very young in obtaining their civil rights and African-Americans are young in obtaining their civil rights, I think it's about time that we extend that to all Americans, whether straight, gay, purple, green, black, brown.
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I can't speak for what other artists should do. I can only tell you how I live.
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You never write a speech in advance because if you don't get to use it, you'll be heartbroken.
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I don't think that moms, with all that's going on in our society today, would want to put their kids in front of something that will be disheartening rather than uplifting.
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I'm starstruck everyday. The day I'm not starstruck, I'll have to retire.
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I just know that the one thing that we all have in common is challenges. No one lives a challenge free life.
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My faith is tested daily.
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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 knows someone or has problems with substance abuse.
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Even in my music, I am always searching for big, universal things - ways that you can sort of reach outside the norm of what you are doing.
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The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.
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Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind.
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I gotta go home and feed my eels. They're not electric, but I have a plan.
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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.
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God in my mind gives you what you need. So, if you need God to be a black woman and you need that for whatever your reasons are, then perhaps your blessings will come in that form.
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I'm probably the most militant person you'll ever meet and I speak my mind without provocation sometimes.
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