Cassandra Peterson Quotes
The only roles I got were of strippers and hookers. I think I'm the only actress to play a stripper on 'Happy Days.'
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I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.
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I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.
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Younger audiences are into me because I did 'Stuart Little,' and that movie was a very big deal for kids. And in 'Angels in the Outfield,' a generation of kids learned about magic and angels. And then, of course, there are these two blond girls named Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, and I played their nanny on their TV show.
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I get used to my fountain pens and my clothes, and I can never throw them away. I replace them only when I see that they are broken or embarrassing to wear.
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Because I was in the business of translating the 'X-Men' from the very successful comics, and taking the most popular book of the 20th century in 'The Lord of the Rings,' and making it into three movies, I hope people realize I wouldn't get involved in anything I didn't think was really going to be worth their while.
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It's one thing to be banal, stupid, and idiotic on the inside. It's another to have it captured in writing.
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I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.
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I'm always going to be a singer.
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You jump right over anything in the past, and you don't analyze problems.
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I don't believe in luck. ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.
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To be angry once in a while is really good fun, because it makes others so miserable. But to be angry morning, noon and night, as I am, grows monotonous and prevents my gaining any other pleasure in life.
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I often told the fanatics of realism that there is no such thing as realism in art: it only exists in the mind of the observer. Art is a symbol, a thing conjuring up reality in our mental image. That is why I don't see any contradiction between abstract and figurative art either.
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And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.
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I've done enough films to know how to save up my energy for the take and then give it on the take and do that.
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I am doing everything humanly possible to try and get well, but lately things have just kept getting worse.
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I went to public school up until junior high.
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As a consequence [of a closed economic circle], in 1912 there was not a single Irishman who sat on a single board of a major Boston bank.
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I soon learned to scent out that which was able to lead to fundamentals and to turn aside from everything else, from the multitude of things which clutter up the mind and divert it from the essential.
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When one becomes for an instant one's former self, that is to say different from what one has been for some time past, one's sensibility, being no longer dulled by habit, receives from the slightest stimulus vivid impressions which make everything that has preceded them fade into insignificance, impressions to which, because of their intensity, we attach ourselves with the momentary enthusiasm of a drunkard.
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In 2012, a five-year-old girl in Shandong province described to me how ten officials had chased her six-months-pregnant mother through the fields to prevent the birth of the family's second child, a boy. She died during the procedure.
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The only roles I got were of strippers and hookers. I think I'm the only actress to play a stripper on 'Happy Days.'
