Octavia Spencer Quotes

City Year resonated with me because when I grew up, we were poor - and an education is a way out of poverty. It's a way out of the current situation that can seem isolating and hopeless for some kids.

Octavia Spencer

Quotes to Explore

If you are a girl dressing up in the morning thinking about the whole world having a point of view on what you are wearing, it takes the pleasure out of getting dressed.

Olivier Theyskens
- Up
- World
- Thinking
I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.

J. C. Chandor
- Up
- Family
- Business
Corporate corruption has ecological merits. It's helping to preserve that species known as Democrats - thought to be endangered as recently as the year 2000.

P. J. O'Rourke
- Thought
- Year
- Corruption
My thoughts fly to the old Icelandic storytellers who created our classics, whose personalities were so bound up with the masses that their names, unlike their lives' work, have not been preserved for posterity.

Halldor Laxness
- Up
- Work
- Thoughts
I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.

Patrick Stewart
- Up
- Childhood
- Afraid
The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.

Paolo Bacigalupi
- Up
- Man
- Chinese