Pamela Druckerman Quotes
I hear people in their 20s describe the 40s as a far-off decade of too-late, when they'll regret things that they haven't done. But for older people I meet, the 40s are the decade that they would most like to travel back to.
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I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.
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I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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I wouldn't wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don't think it's necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
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I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'
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The moment I'm interested in, the moment I'm working toward in these stories, is when the familiar world seems strange.
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It took a good deal of work behind the scenes to achieve this result and I'm glad we've got there.
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All my gowns have trains on them. I make a train that goes on forever. I love long trains and then I stand there and twirl around and wrap myself up in it.
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Economic issues are just as much moral issues as social issues.
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Can you care for the people and rule the country and not be cunning?
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I hear people in their 20s describe the 40s as a far-off decade of too-late, when they'll regret things that they haven't done. But for older people I meet, the 40s are the decade that they would most like to travel back to.
