Pamela Druckerman Quotes
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Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.
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Middle school was probably my hardest time. I was trying to fit in for so long, until about junior year of high school when I realized that trying to fit into this one image of perfection was never going to make me happy.
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Eddie Murphy was my guy for a long time. My first exposure to 'SNL' was his 'Best Of' VHS, and I would watch it over and over again. He was one of the few people on the show to play with the live elements and engage with the audience.
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I aim to direct as much as I act at some point in time.
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People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.
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I first came on the scene during the Johnson years and that crowd was out all the time enjoying themselves. Nixon wasn't particularly social but a lot of the people in his administration were.
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My kids don't go back and forth; none of this 50/50 time with the mums and dads. My children live with me; that is it.
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I'm really kind of boring - I'd rather go to bed early and get up early because I really value my time off, my time away from work.
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Music is like the genius of humankind, universal... People who have never really taken the time to get into music, their lives are a lot smaller. Kids deserve the richness and dimension of it in their lives.
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I think of magazines as cultural entities rather than boxes of corn flakes that can be sold and shipped around.
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Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys from time immemorial, others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that.
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I've never worked on a lawyer show for a long time, but I imagine the actors all start acting like lawyers.
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There was no equal pay law when I started working. I was no different to any other woman in any other job at the time.
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We used to have to arrange things around the dialysis. I would have to plan where to play so I could be back in time, and couldn't go too far.
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I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
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In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.
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If you can make the song a soundtrack to what you're living at the time, I think that's the most important part of a song.
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It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word 'pessimist' was not in our vocabulary at that time. It's a modern 'invention' which I believe we should 'dis-invent.'
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There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
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You never know what can happen. I feel like I have a pretty good chance, but you never know.
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Whatever art form you're working in, it's crucial to see it clearly, to feel it clearly, and not to worry about the results, or how someone else will see it.
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I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.
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Law enforcement in the state of Arizona supports Senate Bill 1070. We have many organizations and groups of the officers on the ground that understand the problem, need another tool in order to address the problem and support it wholeheartedly.
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It's refreshing to have some time off from wondering whether I look fat.
