Missy Peregrym Quotes
I really, really admire my parents so much, for how they raised me. They're some of the best human beings I know.
Quotes to Explore
-
I entered Harvard Medical School knowing nothing of research.
-
I don't want to lose my legs, you know. I don't want to be wheeled around in a wheelchair. I don't want to be attached to a catheter. I saw all that stuff happen to my father, and as much as it upset me because I loved my father so much, it also really traumatized me.
-
Genetically modified organism (GMO) foods are feared and hated by environmentalists and the public alike. Yet the scientific assessment of GMOs is remarkably different. Every major scientific evaluation of GMO technology has concluded that GMOs are safe for human consumption and are a benefit to the environment.
-
I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.
-
Yeah, I'm old as the hills and you would think I'd be out to pasture someplace because I've done everything, but nothing has changed.
-
Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.
-
If your budget is in good shape and you are not indebted too much, you can do what the U.S. did at the beginning of the '30s - building railways, etc., but when you don't have that, you must be far more cautious.
-
The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
-
As a director on 'The Office,' there's a tremendous weight that comes with directing features. I was being asked to direct a show that had already won an Emmy for Best Comedy. Steve Carell and the cast had already won the Screen Actor's Guild Awards.
-
What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
-
It's important to have a big-enough house in order to have space.
-
A man should never neglect his family for business.
-
In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth.
-
Before we had the kids, my husband and I were traveling a lot and working and really enjoying our lives and each other. We both love the theater and books and travel and so we were really having a lot of fun.
-
History is obviously dependent on the evidence, and it's always amazing to me how much evidence there is.
-
I tell you, the paparazzi would not be sitting outside if they realized I was the most boring person in Hollywood.
-
America has to act. But, when America acts, other nations accuse us of being 'hegemonistic', of engaging in 'unilateralism', of behaving as if we're the only nation on earth that counts. We are.
-
I came to the United States in the early '80s and was welcomed with open arms and given the opportunity to pursue my dreams. God has been very kind to us. My family and I are fortunate enough to be successful and we feel a tremendous responsibility and obligation to give back to our great country.
-
I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.
-
The future or the past - It's very simple: building the future, or a restoration of post-communism.
-
There are people that bring artists to me to look at it, and it's a question of whether I like their music and their look and if I think there's something they have that makes them different and commercial.
-
A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.
-
A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time.
-
I really, really admire my parents so much, for how they raised me. They're some of the best human beings I know.
