Peggy Whitson Quotes
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I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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What you need to do is get that tape measure out, and start measuring that gut. Then you start working out and you start eating properly till that gut gets down close to it was when you were in your 20's. Then you'll find out what your weight should be.
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I don't know that much about who directs what movies, but I'm definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.
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There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you.
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Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.
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My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground.
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I have a chef who makes sure that I'm getting the right amounts of carbs, proteins and fats throughout the day to keep me at my max performance level.
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I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview.
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My character, Rick Spleen, is a what-if version of me, really, where nothing did quite turn out right and everything else is still around the corner.
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It's been a dream of mine to run my own summer camp. I went to one as a kid, and I put on productions, and got lots of confidence.
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What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.
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And in fact, one of the central reasons why I never got involved with any drugs or anything is that I remember talking to people in maybe 1975 who saw Hendrix but couldn't remember it. I was like, 'How could that be?'
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I was in middle school right around the time the Bloods and the Crips started taking root in Compton and a lot of the other neighborhoods around me. I saw way too many of my peers - smart, kind, good kids - who got drawn into gangs and violence, and their futures were going to be forever scarred by that.
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My wife and I do not argue. We communicate. We talk. But we've never fought in our entire relationship.
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Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.
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He can't even be at a casual read and not be creating the whole thing in his mind. I remember feeling very awed about how much he still seems to be so in love with it, and so dedicated to making everything really real and really spontaneous.
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Taxation is nothing but organized robbery, and there the subject should be dropped.
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I have a clear bias for international, global experience. On my management team, everybody has two or three countries they've lived and worked in.
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Perfection is reachednot when there's nothing to add, but when there's nothing to take away.
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Since I was 15 I've felt kinda like... an old man.
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I learned to not be afraid to fix things that break.
