Pamela Druckerman Quotes
When my kids correct my cultural missteps, I sometimes suspect that they're not embarrassed, they're gleeful.
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People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
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Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.
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I never wore a single fedora filming 'L.A. Noire.' It took about an hour and a half to do the hair - it was a very precise process.
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I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
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We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.
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I know a lot of people who use the Internet really wisely. It enriches their lives in some way.
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Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.
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I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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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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I think I know I've been working very hard for the family business, sometimes those days are long days and I think if I know I'm working hard and pulling my weight, both working and playing hard at the same time, I think everyone who I work with can see I am there pulling my weight.
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I enjoy directing more when I don't have to direct myself. I like when I can just be the director.
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Let's abolish the IRS, let's eliminate income tax, let's eliminate corporate tax, let's balance the federal budget, and if we need a tax, it can be one federal consumption tax.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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When I was in college, I used to love to watch football on Sundays.
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It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.
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I have a simple mantra: eat right and work out; you'll never have a weight issue. I never starve or binge.
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Most of the time I believe in letting kids go ahead and make their own mistakes - maybe even get a little hurt - and learn from them.
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The same was true of the most popular girls. They had no empathy, no compassion for more normal kids.
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In Bollywood, the film's stakes are as high as the actor. In Hollywood, they are way above, and the day we realise this in our industry, we will start appreciating actors.
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It's important we understand our system seeks justice and not revenge.
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When my kids correct my cultural missteps, I sometimes suspect that they're not embarrassed, they're gleeful.
