Missy Peregrym Quotes
I tried to be really tough when I was younger. I felt I had to stand up for myself. I never felt like I fit in.
Quotes to Explore
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It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.
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A lot of women find that their workwear acts as armour.
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I usually say I left puberty at 58.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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If you're too scared to put your dreams, thoughts, desires, fantasies on paper and share them with the world, then being an author isn't the right career for you.
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Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
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We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.
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With a project like 'The 5th Wave,' you do something you would never do in your normal life; I would never have had S.W.A.T. training or boot camp, and there's something really cool about learning stuff like that that's really fun about our job.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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I don't want to spoil the magic, but it's a very curious thing that honestly baffles me. It's the nearest we'll ever get to playing God, to suddenly produce these fully formed creatures. It is a bit odd. Other aspects you work out more - you rework sentences, you rework imagery. But not characters.
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My dresses are for women of all different shapes and sizes. Actually, the one I tried on yesterday was the one Jennifer wore. And who'd have thought I'd be the same size as Jennifer Lopez!
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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
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I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes.
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I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.
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The single best thing we can do is expand competition. Let people purchase health insurance across state lines. If you want to expand access, what you want to do is increase choices and drive down cost.
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I can tell you that as a writer and as a reader, I regard character as king. Or queen. No matter how riveting the action or interesting the plot twists, if I don't feel like I'm meeting someone who feels real, I'm not going to be compelled to read further.
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I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
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Nancy Pelosi says the angry opposition to health care reform is like the angry opposition to gay rights that led to Harvey Milk being shot.
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Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied.
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I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!
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I tried to be really tough when I was younger. I felt I had to stand up for myself. I never felt like I fit in.
