Pamela Druckerman Quotes
Remember that the problem with hyper-parenting isn't that it's bad for children; it's that it's bad for parents.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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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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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease, and I'm sensitive.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
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If you think about what folks have been doing for 20 or 30 years, they have been bottling frustration and resentment that the political elites don't understand them, that the political elites don't care about them, that the political elites judge them in various ways. All Donald Trump does is provide the opposite of those things.
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We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.
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Everyone needs help when they try something new.
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The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.
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I'd love to play a Bond villain. Yeah, I'd love to play a Bond villain. Everyone always says this to me; they always say, 'You've got to be a Bond villain', 'We're going to make you a Bond villain...' But they've never, ever approached me, I've never had a whiff of it. I think I'd love to play a Bond villain; I'd have great fun.
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In no case can I permit myself to be a candidate of any party or yield myself to any party schemes.
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I'm very good friends with my former coaches. We speak on the phone a lot.
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Despotism is a long crime.
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For a homebody like me, the evolution of gadgets has been a blessing.
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What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
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Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.
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In the shorter term, the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina will have a palpable effect on the national economy.
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The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.
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Being a part of the action is just incredible. I loved doing stunt stuff. I loved learning to ride.
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As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
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It was such a turning point to find that I had a talent and I had something to contribute, somewhere.
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Remember that the problem with hyper-parenting isn't that it's bad for children; it's that it's bad for parents.
