Peggy Johnson Quotes

I would try to be super-assertive in meetings and, you know, pound my hand off the table, and it never ended well. People would say, 'What are you beating the table for?' It's not natural for me.

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• I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.

  

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• We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

  

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• I didn't agree with what Joe McCarthy was trying to do, but I sure did admire his methods.

  

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• Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.

  

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• I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

  

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• I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot.

  

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• There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.

  

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• But we will play 6, 7 new songs each evening, approximately a third in the concert. I think it's a good balance. It will be very interesting to see the public's reaction. But i think when we'll play the very first new piece, we will be scared.

  

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• Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

  

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• A lot of people who are overweight - not everyone, but a lot of people - are dealing with issues such as emotional issues, stress issues. They become stress eaters and emotional eaters.

  

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• I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.

  

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• When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else.

  

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• The E.U. can deliver on its citizens' needs and make its partnerships work only if we all act together - E.U. institutions and national governments, at all levels, united.

  

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• Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.

  

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• Tennis is definitely a star for women in sports.

  

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• I haven't chosen any party yet because people choose parties when they get older. When it's time, I'll look, and if I can't find one to join, I'll make another party.

  

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• People ask if success changes one overnight. I am just doing my job, and I worked way too hard to get here. I didn't get it easy.

  

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• I've been reading titles from IDW for probably as long as they've been in existence. 'Ninja Turtles' is one of my all-time favorite properties ever. I also love, love, love 'Locke & Key.' I also love some of the things they do with pre-existing properties like 'Transformers' and 'Ghostbusters.'

  

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• People create their own obstacles.

  

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• Yes, beef is what was for dinner last night. Tonight it will be my dinner, and it will continue to be.

  

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• Not to belittle what we do as actors, but my wife Helen is a teacher, and she makes a real difference to kids. So it's unusual to see people thinking of us as something special.

  

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• I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.

  

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• I would try to be super-assertive in meetings and, you know, pound my hand off the table, and it never ended well. People would say, 'What are you beating the table for?' It's not natural for me.

  

  Peggy Johnson
  • People
  • Hand