Peggy Johnson Quotes
I had to find my own terms for success, and it wasn't anything like what I was told to do.
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.
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Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
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The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.'
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Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit.
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Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.
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I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.
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Everyone is always working on their body and trying to make it the best that they possibly can. That's what I do every single day, mostly for performance, but also just for me.
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I had a restaurant in Georgia for a while, and I really miss feeding everybody.
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To do more of a concert thing, it takes so much preparation. You don't just show up and wing it. You're putting countless hours in the studio, not just to write and produce stuff, but to come up with edits and special things for the show.
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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I think Trump is a very interesting candidate in this sense: I think he has cross-party appeal.
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The first concert that my parents took me to was in this canyon in Saudi Arabia called Buttermilk Canyon. You sleep under the stars in the desert, and ex-pats - German, Swiss, Canadian, American - would play classical music that filled the whole canyon.
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I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.
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Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
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At a certain point in your career - I mean, part of the answer is a personal answer, which is that at a certain point in your career, it becomes more satisfying to help entrepreneurs than to be one.
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I grew up in a really horrible school system, but my parents did not let that define how we function. They gave me more work at home from them than I ever got from school. To learn about the history of myself and my people, and that armors me.
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The struggle to have a living wage doesn't come easy. You're ready to work, you want it, you seek it... but it's not like it's just given to you.
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We all talk to ourselves. A major key to success exists in what we say to ourselves, which helps to shape our attitude and mindset.
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People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
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I loved working with Jamie Lee Curtis, and I felt she was a wonderful actress even that early in her career.
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I had to find my own terms for success, and it wasn't anything like what I was told to do.
