Pamela Druckerman Quotes
In my 40s, I expect to finally reap the average-looking girl's revenge. I've entered the stage of life where you don't need to be beautiful; simply by being well-preserved and not obese, I would now pass for pretty.
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Every girl on TV, in real life, sure you want to meet that soul mate and fall in love and have the big thing, but until that happens, you gotta kiss a lot of frogs.
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Well, my type is obviously creative. Creative, with burning eyes and a pretty mouth.
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There aren't as many girl superheroes, but there are cool ones. Banshee, for instance.
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Canada is a big part of my life.
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I'm more of a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl.
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Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.
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I have to give importance to my personal life, my family, parents, and sisters. I hope I can strike the right balance.
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I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.
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I suppose I flee to life. I'm most interested when conversations become difficult.
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Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.
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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
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It's very hard to find perfection in your life. But in the art world you can do that.
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For me, doing a show is great, but I want women to be able to wear the clothes easily as well.
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Touring is really a pretty lonely business.
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You just can't help but sort of think that your life and your career are going to go straight up, up, up.
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My parents landed in Calgary in December 1974, straight from Nairobi. They were immigrants, like many people coming to build a better life. My mom was five months pregnant with me when they landed.
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What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working.
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You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.
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I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves on children or misuse their authority to impose on children.
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It's not like I wake up every morning and just can't wait to write. It is my job. It's much easier to not write. I'd rather read. This is my income. This is what supports my family. Having a child is a pretty big incentive to keep working.
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I feel so lucky.
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In contrast to our own social environment which brings out different aspects of human nature and often demonstrated that behavior which occurs almost invariably in individuals within our society is nevertheless due not to original nature but to social environment; and a homogeneous and simple development of the individual may be studied.
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If you've climbed the first 140 meters it doesn't mean that you've succeeded; you are going to succeed by climbing the last 10 meters.
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In my 40s, I expect to finally reap the average-looking girl's revenge. I've entered the stage of life where you don't need to be beautiful; simply by being well-preserved and not obese, I would now pass for pretty.
