Norma Deloris Egstrom (Peggy Lee) Quotes
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At the Bangalore air show, we got a contract from Boeing for supplying structural components, and we are already supplying jet engine components to Rolls Royce. Both these are titanium-based, not steel components.
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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
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If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
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I was intentionally curbing the impulse to be funny and hiding the ability. I wrote any number of very serious attempts at poems, short stories, novels - horrible. At a certain point, I recognized that it was fun to write dialogue that had a degree of lightness and humor.
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It's nice to have my mother as someone I can talk to about acting. My dad's a director, so when he comes to watch me on set, he think it's his set. He's always telling a production assistant, 'Can you get me five donuts?'
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'Coexist' was tough to make.
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If you don't change, you're dead, so I try to keep changing.
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I would not want to be a part of any project that I feel would not work. An actor like me always wants to work to get appreciation of the audiences. And appreciation can only come if people will come to watch the film.
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If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
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I just can't see myself as a trophy wife. I can't imagine not having my own life.
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I don't understand labels. I don't need anybody to tell me I'm Latina or black or anything else. I've played characters that were written for Caucasian females, I just want to be given the same consideration as everybody else, and so far that has been happening.
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It's so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg.
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Judaism is a whole line of values that have existed for thousands of years, but the democratic idea is a new idea, and significant parts of it stand in contradiction to Judaism.
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It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.
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I'm admittedly not that into the Internet.
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I don't want fans mad at me, so I gotta give them what they expect and what they want.
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When your effort is low, you're probably not thinking about the opportunity, you're thinking about the obligation.
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An important verity about knowledge is that the brain works most effectively with consciously retained information. We more easily remember what we want to recall later. When we feed our fourteen billion brain cells with information that will enrich us and help others, we are really learning to Think Big.
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Irvine, being a planned community, is really good shorthand, especially in a movie or book, for understanding suburban pressures.
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You can't beat The Beatles, you join 'em.
