Peggy Lipton Quotes
My love affairs were more often about the fantasy than the actual person I was involved with.
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In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.
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Going to rehearsals of school plays got me out of science. It became clear what inspired me and what dampened my spirit. The only other thing I could do at school was trampolining - it didn't seem to have much future in it.
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Everyone always says, 'When you look at a boy band, one of them has to be gay.' No, they don't.
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I received free health care.
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Early on, after gay liberation, there was an almost Stalinist pressure from gay critics and even gay readers to write about positive role models. We were never supposed to write negative things about gays, or else we were seen as collaborating with the enemy.
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It's part of me, Scotland. I'm still immersed in it even though I am not there.
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
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It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.
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Trends come and go, and style evolves. It's important to have pieces of jewelry that are timeless and look chic despite ever-changing fashions.
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Zhang Yimou is always going to need young, pretty girls for his films. But I don't really concern myself with what Zhang Yimou's next starlet looks like.
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Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
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I don't mind being pale. In high school, it seemed like everybody cared about being tan all year round, but I haven't really thought about it since then. I don't go to a tanning bed, and I get bored when I lay out. I put sunscreen on when I'm in the sun, and sometimes I get tan, but I don't really think about it very much.
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This is not a country that has had a tremendous sympathy for poor people, so I think that the notion that somehow we have slipped into an era in which poor people don't matter is not quite the way our history would define it.
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Negotiate with those who wish to talk - and take action against those who create mischief.
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Cheney shots his buddy in the face. Clinton shot his intern in the face.
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True democracy or the swaraj of the masses can never come through untruthful and violent means, for the simple reason that the natural corollary to their use would be to remove all opposition through the suppression or extermination of the antagonists.
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One voice, speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies, given time; plenty of time.
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Worried thought prevents practical thought which could prevent worried thought.
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I don't think I'm very much like anyone else, really. I'm sure there are aspects of other actors that I share, but I don't see anybody else and go, 'Damn, they stole my thing.' I'm me, and I like that there are people who have an appreciation for that.
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You break your neck, you don't know what's going to happen. I mean, it's foreign. You're in this body that you thought you were - that you were accustomed to, and now you're not. You have to figure out everything. I think the biggest thing for me was getting a license, because it gives you - it gives you your independence back.
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I've had a lot of fear in my life, from fear of flying to fear of making a speech in front of a lot of people.
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Ultimately what I'll do next is up in the air for me.
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My love affairs were more often about the fantasy than the actual person I was involved with.
