Pamela Druckerman Quotes
A large part of the creative process is tolerating the gap between the glorious image you had in your mind and the sad thing you've just made.
Quotes to Explore
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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
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To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.
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I feel like I have so many stories basting in my mind, and they come busting out when they're ready.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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In my mind, every single female character I've written is plus-size.
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I'm probably the most militant person you'll ever meet and I speak my mind without provocation sometimes.
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Mainly, I hope to inspire honesty. We live in a space where so much can be manipulated, and so much is expected to be manipulated - curated, contrived, edited. I think that's a real detriment to self expression and happiness in a lot of ways. In my mind, honesty and vulnerability is the way forward.
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Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.
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Yes, gymnasts aim for perfection, but I never thought about the score. If that's what's in your mind, it will probably mess you up.
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The minute I put my leg on a horse and say, 'Come on, let's go,' I absolutely believe that the horse and I can do it and that we will do it. And I am always shocked when we actually don't do it. If the analytical mind ever overrode that optimist in me, I'd be in some serious trouble.
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You need people around you that care about you and are thinking about you in your best interest. And keep your mind straight.
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If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.
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There's a rule of writing: if everything is funny, nothing is funny; if everything is sad, nothing is sad. You want that contrast.
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The Bushes were certainly part of Texas in their mind, but they didn't have the kind of political flavor that you normally find in Texas politicians. It's just Texas is such a unique place to itself that politically, at least so far, they haven't found anybody to play nationally.
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I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.
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If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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Obviously, a lot of things play on your mind when you're batting. This might happen and this might not. The best thing you can do when you're batting is not to think too much, and wait for the next ball.
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What's crucial is that the IRA produce a credible statement that paramilitary and criminality activity is a thing of the past. That they are committed to a future which is exclusively peaceful and democratic.
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I will go out of this world feet first with my Lib Dem membership card in my pocket.
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As a writer, my only responsibility is to tell a compelling story.
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Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
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Every positive change in your life begins with a clear, unequivocaldecision that you are going to either do something or stop doing something.
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A large part of the creative process is tolerating the gap between the glorious image you had in your mind and the sad thing you've just made.
