Pamela Druckerman Quotes
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a particular gender or age group rather than convey a more universal appeal.
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I have more friends in New York than Paris.
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Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.
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The economy is not immutable; it's not about natural laws. It's about rules, and we make the rules.
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I think, in general, when you're doing comedy, you're having a good time regardless of the comedy table tennis that you're playing. I think you want that, too: you're rooting for two characters to be together, and you should feel that even when they're angry at each other, they're still in synch with each other.
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When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.
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The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.
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As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.
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I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept.
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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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I love sweets. Like, every week of my life, I've had a cheat day.
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One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.
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I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.
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I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married, as in being one man and one woman, is not the best household for a child.
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Western man is schizophrenic.
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A lot of people ask me what my mom has taught me about modeling. The truth is the things she teaches me go deeper than what pose to make or what my good side is.
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You can't heal what you don't acknowledge.
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Read at a time when everything feels intense, seminal, and like you're the first person to discover it, freshman year of college, Carol Gilligan's 'In a Different Voice' made my hair stand on end with awe.
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Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.
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To be ignorant and to be deceived are two different things. To be ignorant is to be a slave of the world. To be deceived is to be the slave of another man. The question will always be: Why, when all men are ignorant, and therefore already slaves, does this latter slavery sting us so?
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It has been a long time since philosophers have read men’s souls. It is not their task, we are told. Perhaps. But we must not be surprised if they no longer matter much to us.
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Every time I pass a cafe, I imagine it being stormed by men with Kalashnikovs.
