Peggy Whitson Quotes
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If one line about the film excites me, I try to take it forward.
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Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.
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I'm not a psychiatrist.
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You don't run from the bad things in life; learn from them, because your worst is what will lead you to your best.
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I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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One of my favorite things about what I do for a living is that there is no certainty that, at any hour of any day, I could get a phone call that could change everything. Good or bad. I never know.
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Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.
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What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts. The attention to those issues is deflected by the spin of my supposedly having trivialized the Holocaust.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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It's not enough to just mildly want what you want. You must wildly want what you want. Nobody ever got their greatest wishes by being wishy-washy. You need to put extreme energy into your power of intention to win what you wanna win.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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After defining an idea of what I want to achieve, through a series of storyboard images, I'll go to the ends of the earth to create it, whether that involves obscure camera lenses or the latest electronic techniques.
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Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.
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Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.
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The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.
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The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano.
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India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.
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I'm a pretty cliche actor in that I hate watching myself on film.
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We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams of getting married and having a family, living in the country, leading an idyllic life.
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How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make.
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Our life is full of empty space.
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I do think space hotels are probably in our future.
