Pamela Druckerman Quotes
Discrimination was a problem before terrorism. Now, the bad deeds of a few people have made life worse for millions.
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'
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When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.
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I found the happiest woman in America is between 50 and 55, is happily married, has made significant progress in her career, and lives in a community where she can easily exercise outside. But the most important single thing was she had her last child before she was 35.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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Music was always part of my life - my mother says I came out singing. I wanted to be Gene Kelly - or Judy Garland.
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Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.
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The way that I sing is very mumbled-together, and so I guess I'm kind of stuck with it now.
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My appetite for public policy and changing it, and not only being a part of the conversation, but affecting it in a positive way, never diminished after 10 years in Congress.
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My parents were Beatle fans, but my mom was especially a Lennon fan, so I was exposed to him more. I remember her playing 'Double Fantasy' quite often.
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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When I was 11 years old, I was a member of 'Press Pack,' which was a thing that would come out in 'The Sunday Times' in England. You'd write articles and send them off and would get a badge saying 'Official Press.' I was really excited about my badge.
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My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to the radio in New York, and all there was on it at the time was Madonna and Michael Jackson, so it sort of passed me by.
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With taekwondo, anything can happen, really. You get bad days; you get good days of training, so you've just got to hope that you're on it on your day.
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...Goldfinger could not have known that high tension was Bond's natural way of life and that pressure and danger relaxed him.
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I have some sort of affinity for compulsive behavior. The most interesting stories come up from the people on the outside. They don't waste energy marching to the same drummer most of us do. It gives us an opportunity to look at things in a different way, which is the purest thing cinema can do.
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In the case of 'The Book Thief,' my research was hearing the stories of my parents when I was a child. But I started changing the stories when I began moulding the book.
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It will always be important that people continue to push on the system from the outside. It will also be important that people make the changes that we know are necessary on the inside.
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Discrimination was a problem before terrorism. Now, the bad deeds of a few people have made life worse for millions.
