Norma Deloris Egstrom (Peggy Lee) Quotes
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I tell the government, if people have no jobs, you are in trouble. Government will be in trouble. My job is to help more people have jobs.
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Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
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I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
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I got my Equity card right out of NYU grad school in 2000, doing 'The Great White Hope' at Arena Stage. I played Jack Jefferson. It was an amazing part to walk into, to carry that responsibility for that amount of time. The challenges and the breadth of that role were pretty amazing.
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Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.
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I know that the last thing a book wants is to just sit around unread, serving as an element of interior decorating. So when I have people over, all they have to do is glance at my books, and I implore them to take a few home with them. If I am really ambitious, I pack books into boxes and donate them to prisons.
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It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women's clothes.
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People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.
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I love Frances McDormand so much. I love her career. And I think it's fun because she gets to do comedy as well as drama.
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I like action-adventure movies.
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But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation.
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I feel like when I try to fit in, it comes across as not genuine, and that is not good. I'd rather just do me and have people say, 'Oh. That's interesting,' than try to fit in.
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I was definitely inspired by Madonna.
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I'm a full-time believer in writing habits...You may be able to do without them if you have genius but most of us only have talent and this is simply something that has to be assisted all the time by physical and mental habits or it dries up and blows away. Of course you have to make your habits in this conform to what you can do. I write only about two hours every day because that's all the energy I have, but I don't let anything interfere with those two hours, at the same time and the same place.
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Bravery shows up in everyday life when people have the courage to live their truth, their vision and their dreams.
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There are so many different ways to make art. And so many good stories. You don't have to have a budget. I feel like it's super possible these days for people to make anything, no matter who you are or where you come from. And that's really exciting. I'm excited to see people around me pushing boundaries in that way, not letting certain structures define them or what art they can make.
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Folk melodies are the embodiment of an artistic perfection of the highest order; in fact, they are models of the way in which a musical idea can be expressed with utmost perfection in terms of brevity of form and simplicity of means.
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The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.
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But I'm in favor of every religion with the possible exception of snake-chunking. Anybody that so presumes on how he stands with Providence that he will let a snake bite him, I say he deserves what he's got coming to him.
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When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.
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On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.
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If that's all there is, my friends, then let's keep dancing.
