Peggy Whitson Quotes
I started out as a farm girl in Iowa, and I dreamed of being an astronaut and an explorer. And I made it.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.
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The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.
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The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
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I have a very intimate knowledge of the world of the mentally ill and of life inside of, especially, public hospitals and the way people are treated in there and the way that they try to survive in there.
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We believe in funding family planning because it helps to prevent unintended pregnancy. We believe that a woman considering an abortion should not be forced to have an ultrasound against her will.
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I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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The worst affected from corruption is the common man.
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I don't like to make a big splash anyway.
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Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
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I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.
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With any character I have played, there's infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.
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That's one of the reasons I moved to Florida. Of course, the main reason is the weather and the training. But there's more jealousy in Switzerland because it's so little and they don't have so many athletes.
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There have been a few times when I've read a script and it's really cool but the girl character's just kind of pathetic. It's not going to do me any favours just being 'the girl' in a cool movie.
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As a young girl, I definitely struggled with knowing what to do with my hair. I was just in a neighborhood that had mostly white people, and the hair norm was long and sleek and straight. My hair naturally was curly, and I didn't have that many references.
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At another level, market crashes constitute beautiful examples of events that we would all like to forecast. The arrow of time is inexorably projecting us toward the undetermined future. Predicting the future captures the imagination of all and is perhaps the greatest challenge.
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In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.
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I started out as a farm girl in Iowa, and I dreamed of being an astronaut and an explorer. And I made it.
