Peggy Johnson Quotes
The 14th of 15 kids, I was the second youngest - not a coveted spot on the family totem pole.
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Before I left Russia in 1999, I was living in a very poor factory town with my family and friends, and nothing was ever going to change.
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Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to you, convinced that they know you as well or better than they do members of their own family, that's just an odd phenomenon. But I mean, I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It's an interesting thing.
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The financial costs of family breakdown are incredibly high.
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Our family is very tight. Just like any family, we have our ups and downs, but the love is always going to be there. I try to go to my parents' house as much as I can.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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That's the most important thing you do in your life - raise children and try to do the best job as a parent and give your kids the best shot in life to go out there into the big, bad world.
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I married my high school sweetheart, and I do have two kids.
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I guess 'Scarface' was the Cuban Al Pacino.
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I didn't get interested in education until I had kids.
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The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages.
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Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
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I know it can be difficult for parents, but I really do believe that kids need to play the predominant role in the choices that go into their own space.
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You can't predict when a crisis might hit your family, whether it's with an elderly parent or with your children.
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As long as there's land available, single-family homes will be built, and Colorado residents will always go for a single-family over a condo.
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I've done a pretty good job of hitting 18-34-year-old males, and not such a good job of reaching kids. Disney has done a great job of reaching kids, but maybe not the 18-34-year-olds. I figure I can learn a lot from Disney, and maybe, I don't know, they can learn a lot from me.
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I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.
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Seeing family is what brings me peace. If I'm not traveling home on my day off, I love going to Central Park to be around trees and throw a Frisbee with my boyfriend.
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'Showboat' is the quintessential family show.
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I couldn't live without music. I experienced things through music in different countries where you cannot speak the same language, but the music and the dance relates everything.
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Japanese chefs believe our soul goes into our knives once we start using them. You wouldn't put your soul in a dishwasher!
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I do mourn my characters. I wrote an essay once where I was sure that far back in a marsh there was a hummock - a little hill of hardwoods - and an old farm house, where all the heroines in my novels lived together with all my beloved dead dogs. I've discussed this with my therapist, naturally. He says it's okay in fair amounts.
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The way glass can be molded or blown or cut into any kind of shape made me think about how we as people - our characters or souls - can be shaped or changed by outside influences.
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The biggest danger for any organism is to not identify that it's being threatened. I want to hope that people realize that the source of danger and risk in the Middle East is not the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but the deep radical Islamic vision of forming a global caliphate.
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The 14th of 15 kids, I was the second youngest - not a coveted spot on the family totem pole.
