Pamela Druckerman Quotes
In the Nineties, there was all this new research into brain development, with evidence saying poor kids fall behind in school because no one is talking to them at home, no one is reading to them. And middle-class parents seized on this research.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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It's always interesting to play a character that obviously has a secret.
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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I'm still overwhelmed and, at the same time, kind of star struck that I am part of this New England Patriots organization.
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Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
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In 2009, I served as AARP's Ambassador of Caregiving. With a producer and cameraman, I traveled the country for months, interviewing hundreds of caregivers.
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You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.
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I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.
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My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.
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Parenting is tough.
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Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.
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There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
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All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
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'Breakfast at Tiffany's' isn't a great movie because Audrey Hepburn is brilliant and everyone else isn't. It's a great movie because everybody is fascinating, and she is at the center of it being amazing.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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God has taken care of me, and mother dear has taken care of me, too. All my life.
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I just want to see a good movie. Fortunately, good movies come in all sorts of genres.
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That's the whole part of playing football and having training camp. Coming in and recognizing how players play.
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I get on base by making good contact with the ball. But whenever I hit a home run, I'm as surprised as everybody else.
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People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall.
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In the Nineties, there was all this new research into brain development, with evidence saying poor kids fall behind in school because no one is talking to them at home, no one is reading to them. And middle-class parents seized on this research.
