Peggy Rathmann Quotes
It's really an interesting problem, trying to earn a living and serve art and serve kids. What I try to create are these visual layers so that readers feel the possibility exists that there might be something in the book they never saw before.

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The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'
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The good thing about SUVs is they have storage.
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My work involves online dating, but I believe almost every behavior exhibited online has an offline corollary. Really, the medium doesn't change human nature.
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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Many people know that Ethiopia is poor. When I break a world record, maybe people get to know something else about Ethiopia, something good. We can't make planes or cars, we don't have the materials. We do what we can.
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Working manually is not considered bad in the U.S.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples.
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I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
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Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings.
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I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.
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I've always tried to be fair, even-handed, not an advocate for any group.
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One of the regular intervals of meditation in my life, believe it or not, is in my car.
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It's really hard to compete with Apple on pure coolness, and if you do, you're probably going to use some of the things they pioneered.
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There is enough of free-of-charge software available on the Net to ease building internet websites and contact pages, as well as implement email marketing campaigns.
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We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.
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There's not a lot of room anymore for what I call 'made-up' drama. The drama comes from real places now - marriage takes work and focus, the kid stuff takes patience and commitment. And if you don't grow as people and as a couple, within all of that, then you've got some real drama.
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I will not be deterred from my mission of helping kids in this country.
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A lot of America's success is because we're an open society and haven't brought dogma or religious influence into the American political process.
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I am a movement chauvinist.
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I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
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It's really an interesting problem, trying to earn a living and serve art and serve kids. What I try to create are these visual layers so that readers feel the possibility exists that there might be something in the book they never saw before.