Peggy Johnson Quotes

M&A at Microsoft is a team sport for the senior leadership group. They're all involved in it, and we all play different roles. My role is the first centralized business development role at Microsoft.

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• I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that person's career or that person's career.' And as time has gone on, it's become really clear to me what is important to me; getting the best roles, the roles that I feel are challenging and scary and that I haven't done yet.

  

  Carla Gugino
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• I am kind of the front man for a team of people behind the scenes who are working just as hard as me and are putting in just as much time to make this all happen. I'm not trying to be humble. I just want everyone to get credit where credit is due.

  

  Sam Hunt
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• I'm a man of different types of flavors and tastes. I like listening to things that inspire me. Older music, when instruments were being played, not just people hitting buttons. It's manlier. You're touching things to make sounds appear.

  

  Action Bronson
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• One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
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• It's very different to have this kid that I'm truly responsible for.

  

  Laura Lippman
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• I usually have 10 different animation projects going at a time.

  

  Tara Strong
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• If you are playing someone living, it is a different type of judgment. However much work you do, it is not a documentary. There will be things you can't get right, and ultimately, you have to take a leap because - you weren't there.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
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• I feel like every day I discover new actors and new filmmakers and different genres, and it's just so cool.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
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• I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.

  

  Zach Gilford
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• I've done all different kinds of genres - doo-wop, pop, funk, gospel, country, jazz, you name it.

  

  Aaron Neville
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• I was scared, because I knew that in the political arena, you have to satisfy so many different types of people at once, and I wasn't sure that I could speak for everybody and be politically correct.

  

  Camryn Manheim
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• I have always encouraged my restaurant operators and team members to give back to the local community.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
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• Not all of us are chameleons that can do every different thing. I hope I'm going to be typecast. I will play the girl next door for the rest of my life if I have to. I always kind of feel like I have that in my pocket when I go in a room.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
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• Akshay Kumar is a senior in the industry, and I consider myself lucky to be working with him. Each film of his opens to a packed house. Today, a film will sell only if you have a story. The audience is smart and won't be taken for a ride. And I'm confident about my movies.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
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• When I'm playing a team sport, it's not about one individual, it's about everyone, from me to the other 23 people who were there, to all the support staff who've worked very hard behind the scenes.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
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• Whaling was the oil business of its day.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
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• A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

  

  Dan Devine
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• I used to play football at school, and I enjoyed really physical sports, but I now try to avoid any sports that might build up different muscles. That might have a negative impact on my archery.

  

  Im Dong-Hyun
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• People think the advantage of a parent in the business is that they'll open doors for you. But the true advantage for me is having someone who knows exactly what you're going through.

  

  Katherine Waterston
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• I don't take notes. I don't have any notebooks. I keep on trying to do that because it seems like a very writerly thing to do, but my mind doesn't work that way. I tend to get the idea for a novel in a big splash.

  

  Zadie Smith
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• I grew up on comics in the 1960s era, when 'Wonder Woman' was rather silly. She was an interchangeable female character plagued by bad stereotypes. She cried at the drop of a hat, she was worried about how she looked, all of that.

  

  George Perez
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• I live my life by these little church signs you see as you drive around, and there's one near me that says, 'If we really knew each other, we would neither idolise nor condemn.' And that's it: if we all knew each other, then we wouldn't treat anybody any different. And there wouldn't be any big stars, I guess.

  

  Garth Brooks
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• Asked for your opinion on the prints, you have two choices: truth or tact. I ask for the bathroom.

  

  Bill Jay
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• M&A at Microsoft is a team sport for the senior leadership group. They're all involved in it, and we all play different roles. My role is the first centralized business development role at Microsoft.

  

  Peggy Johnson
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