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 grew up with the one of the most famous fathers in the world in the 1960s and '70s. He passed away in 1984, and as time went on, people didn't know him. That blew me away.
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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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I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white, and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the time, but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent, and I'm not your mommy; I'm a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?' and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.
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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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It's not so much the dressing up, but I love the idea of moving and existing in a different time.
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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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If you factor in not just who's doing what at home, but how much more time working fathers are spending on work outside the home, on average they spend two hours more per day outside the home.
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At the end of the day, it's all about money.
Garry Kasparov -
I think it's a fallacy that the harder you practice the better you get.
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My dad is a doctor, a professor of psychiatry, and my mum is a psychotherapist.
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With wealth, one is in a position of responsibility. You must try to help others. It is as simple as that.
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It's refreshing to have some time off from wondering whether I look fat.
