Peggy Johnson Quotes
It's up to you to define your own brand of leadership and your own version of success.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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Since the moment I could hold a pencil, I have spent nearly all day every day writing. And there is not an age group that I have not written for. You can read me from birth 'til death.
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As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
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An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We're inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, 'Gimme, gimme, gimme,' you will always be in short supply.
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
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The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.
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I am the conductor for life of the Staatskapelle in Berlin, which fills me with tremendous joy because I feel absolutely at one with them. When we play, I have a feeling that together we manage to create one collective lung for the whole orchestra so that everybody in the stage breathes the music in the same way.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.
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We feel the pull of nature very strongly, relating - even unknowingly - feeling in ourselves to bulbs being stirred in frozen ground, or to the branches of dead trees. Perhaps this indivisibility from nature is an important thing to recognize as we go about our business in the world.
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There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.
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I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism. Infant girls could teach it to them.
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There's a real question of what the United States could do if we detain somebody out of Syria right now.
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The camera must point at the exact spot the audience wishes to look at any given moment. To find that spot is absurdly easy: you only have to remember where you were looking at the time the scene was made.
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To have children on the set, you realize that if a 10-year-old can do it, who are you kidding? It humbles you.
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This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail.
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It's up to you to define your own brand of leadership and your own version of success.
