Peggy Noonan Quotes
You don't tell people who disagree with you they'd be better off somewhere else. And you don't reduce them to stereotypes; you address them as fully formed people worthy of respect. You try to persuade them.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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I was thinking about the women of Pakistan, those who are not allowed to get education, those who are not allowed to do whatever they want to do in their life. I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting.
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Soderbergh is a very respectable director that manages to have an incredible amount of freedom in a system that doesn't allow anybody to be free as he is on a set. And he will jump from 'Solaris' to 'Ocean's Twelve' and 'Thirteen.'
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I've concentrated for a long time on English films because I've got two kids but my oldest son is 11 and I think I'm going to be away for about four months of year now.
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I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.
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I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.
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We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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It feels really good to give back. I'm opening the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness Centre in Australia.
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The way I usually put it is that as an SF writer, I'm never required to be right.
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You play shows all over the country and hope that radio gets a chance to get out to see you, but that doesn't always happen like that.
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I don't often get angered by the things press spokespeople say. Most of these people have difficult jobs and are often forced to be the public faces of policies they had nothing to do with creating.
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When I try to understand somebody, create a character, I fall into them. When I think writers are telling me what to think, I get harrumphy.
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You don't tell people who disagree with you they'd be better off somewhere else. And you don't reduce them to stereotypes; you address them as fully formed people worthy of respect. You try to persuade them.
