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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educat

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 youre putting out there, if its received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If its not received, great, I respect you for not. – Octavia Spencer

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I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could do or be anything. Then I said, Maybe I want to be an actor. And she said, Maybe not that. – Octavia Spencer

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Dreams
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I think its actually a misperception that I am a comedic actress. I do more drama than comedy but very little of it has been seen. When you are in big funny movies and they do well and your little part in it kind of explodes people perceive you as a comedian. – Octavia Spencer

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funny
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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 typical Hollywood beauty. – Octavia Spencer

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My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams. It appears that everything I saw and did has a new, and perhaps, more significant meaning, every time I see it. The earth is good. It is a privilege to live thereon. – Liberty Hyde Bailey

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Im not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and Id better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams that came true. – Sam Raimi

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I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because Im not so censored when I use dream material. – Kathy Acker

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In my wildest dreams, I could not have imagined a sweeter life. – Hugh Hefner

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A grandchild is a miracle, but a renewed relationship with your own children is even a greater one. – T. Berry Brazelton

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Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. – Milton Friedman

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