Pamela Druckerman Quotes
Sometimes I just tell my kids, 'Outside of France, I'm considered completely normal.' This worked until we traveled to London.
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It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
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If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change.
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The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.
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For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
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I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.
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When I played Robert Howard in 'The Whole Wide World', I was struggling with it. There's this dual thing where you feel real good about being able to play this juicy part, and then there's constant shame: 'Who am I to pretend to know who this guy was? Who am I to represent this guy for people who never knew him?'
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Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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We've always made progress by understanding what the next great challenge is.
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There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.
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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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Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'
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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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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the material? It's absurd.
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I'm very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog - It's the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!
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Your fame and your success moves much more rapidly than your ability to fund it.
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Watching my kids grow up made me realize that they would never know a world or a time without the Internet.
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People ordinarily don't think of their orchestras as important as we'd like them to be. People don't care about their friends and neighbors who sit down to commit excellence three or four times a year, but they will go see the tall bald guy with three names from television.
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Sometimes I just tell my kids, 'Outside of France, I'm considered completely normal.' This worked until we traveled to London.
