Nancy Peters Quotes
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.
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I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.
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I had this little Bon Iver phase a few years back; 'Flume' was one of my favourite songs.
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The message was always, 'It's good to be pretty, but don't look like you're trying to be pretty!' Inherent in that is a lot of misogyny, I think, because the implication is, 'You must work hard to achieve a feminine ideal for which society has nothing but contempt.'
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The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
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The ability to calibrate risk doesn't happen rationally.
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I did grow up in a military family but lacked the perspective to grasp the cognitive dissonance carried by most people who serve in the armed forces or the circumstances that push lots of folks into the military. I don't blame G.I. Joe or Rambo for that atmosphere, but they certainly reflected the final stage of a two generation cultural myth.
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When you're growing up, you realize you've got a lot of heavy things on your shoulders.
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Playing a plainer role means everything is dependent on the credentials of the actor, not the fact that they are as pretty as Julia Roberts. People start to look at their talent rather than their appearance. And playing the ugly part often means less time in the make-up chair, which is a great benefit on set.
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When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.
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When I was a kid, I loved 'Little Women.'
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One of the Republicans' major products is dream making. People are dying to get into this country... not out of it.
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When I talk about the end of apartheid, I prefer not to claim the honor that I have ended it.
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Make your office comfortable for you, and optionally comfortable for others.
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Playing goal is like being shot at.
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Television is much more complex, brain-challenging and involved than it used to be. It's almost impossible to watch a television show from 15 years ago; it's just too boring. I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up.
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The great thing in life is efficiency. If you amount to anything in the world, your time is valuable, your energy precious. They are your success capital, and you cannot afford to heedlessly throw them away or trifle with them.
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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
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The mood of the '50s is like today.
