Pamela Druckerman Quotes
There's an American idea that you want to look as young as you can for as long as you can. If you can be mistaken for a teenager from behind into your 50s, then you've won; you've succeeded.
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Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.
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I have a physical background. It's not like I'm a kung fu master, but my real training was dance school, and through that, I move to this thing called Capruera that I used in 'Ocean's 12.' I can pretend that I can do a lot of things, but then, I don't really master anything.
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I tell people in Chicago to take care of themselves.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
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There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
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When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
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Around 14, I was turned on to Shania, Reba, Merle Haggard, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood... and I've followed it ever since.
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To be smart on crime, we should not be in a position of constantly reacting to crime after it happens. We should be looking at preventing crime before it happens.
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The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
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The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.
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There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of the moral lessons it tries to impose or the perfect role models it offers. Personally, I happen to think that a book is of extraordinary value if it gives the reader nothing more than a smile or two. In fact, I happen to think that's huge.
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Change is inevitable. Things absolutely cannot stay the same. The type of change we invoke is up to each and every one of us.
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It's part of me, Scotland. I'm still immersed in it even though I am not there.
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Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
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I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
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I didn't want to do something typical.
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My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.
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The rich, like well brought up children, are meant to be seen, not heard.
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People look at you and see that you've made it, but sometimes they forget that it took you years of being a human being.
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Since in the long run deception is likely to be found out, your character had better not only seem good, but be it.
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There's an American idea that you want to look as young as you can for as long as you can. If you can be mistaken for a teenager from behind into your 50s, then you've won; you've succeeded.
