Pamela Druckerman Quotes
Practically every time I speak up at a school conference, a political event, or my apartment building association's annual meeting, I'm met with a display of someone else's superior intelligence.
Quotes to Explore
-
I feel like I grew up in the circus. I know planes, trains and automobiles. And really talented, weird people.
-
I've been super impressed with what BuzzFeed has done on Facebook with inspiring list posts and on Twitter with political scoops, but YouTube is a giant social platform that has its own quirks and oddities and will require some new approaches.
-
I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.
-
This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
-
I worked with Lukas Haas a long time ago, when he was younger, and he was wonderful.
-
I'm always trying to find 'connections' between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but add up to something recognizable.
-
I have a sewing machine that I adore, and I spend a lot of time sitting in front of it when I'm not working. And any excuse to paint or draw or do something artistic with my hands really gets me going. Definitely aspiring.
-
In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.
-
I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English.
-
Having been on tour in countries that are extremely eco-friendly, we automatically end up doing the things that normal people do in other countries.
-
The right-wing of the Republican party isn't so much a political agenda as a plea for help.
-
The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop up daily.
-
My parents would always say, 'It doesnt' matter if it's a guy picking up the garbage or the President of the United States, treat everybody as you would want to be treated.
-
Just try to focus one game at a time, not worry about points or anything like that. Worry about playing the right way and see what comes of it.
-
Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.
-
I was trying to be someone for the first part of high school. I was kind of this nerdy kid who didn't want to be a nerd anymore. Even talking about it, I'm embarrassed. I'm like, 'Ugh, why did you care what people thought?'
-
I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.
-
It was just this interesting, my first, the first time you hear your child in any way criticise you. It's the worst review of your life and it's really relieving to find out that they don't know what they're saying.
-
Capital was always the struggle. I always had these amazing visions. Had this amazing work ethic. Had this amazing work partner in my wife. But I was always struggling for capital. I owe a lot to local banks who were willing to take chances on Jo and I early in our career.
-
I am a deeply spiritual and religious person both privately and publicly.
-
Nonetheless, I'm not sure this entirely accounts for my Buddhist voice, which tells me forever to give up writing, to give up on relationships, simply to give up. Whatever it is, it doesn't seem to me to be the voice of innocence.
-
If we're going to go really deep, we're all trying to live forever. My music is my way of doing that.
-
I just get an idea and then all of a sudden I've got a song.
-
Practically every time I speak up at a school conference, a political event, or my apartment building association's annual meeting, I'm met with a display of someone else's superior intelligence.
