Pamela Druckerman Quotes

Podcasts immersed me in colloquial English and put me back in the American zeitgeist.

Pamela Druckerman

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• I think a lot of young girls see actresses, and they think of red carpets, and they think of 'Us Weekly,' and they don't really think about the breaking down of a script and what that requires and what you would need to pull it off.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Think
  • Red
  • Down

• Not a lot of people get to go to the Olympics - especially with the chance I've got.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • Chance
  • Olympics

• The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Art
  • Politics
  • Lies

• The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Control
  • Mistake

• There is a strong sentiment within the Tea Party that favors a stronger America on the global stage, and with that comes a strong alliance with the State of Israel.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • America
  • Strong
  • Party

• God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Good
  • God
  • Heart

• Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • World
  • Black

• I do believe that the coal industry sees the cultural shift toward cleaner energy and global warming solutions as a threat to their interests.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Believe
  • Energy
  • Shift

• Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.

  

  Yishan Wong
  • Real
  • Story
  • Where

• There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Life
  • Value
  • Pleasure

• I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Pain
  • Emotional
  • More

• Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Bad
  • City
  • Will

• Fantasy was something I'd read as a child. And, in fact, my teachers despaired a little bit because I refused to give up Enid Blyton. Then I walked through the wardrobe with C. S. Lewis, and I don't think I actually have returned fully from the wardrobe. So, fantasy was something that was in my life from quite young.

  

  Fiona McIntosh
  • Life
  • Up
  • Child

• I hate celebrities.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Hate
  • Celebrities

• You can be in the shape of your life, and then injury strikes. So you have to grab your opportunities.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Life
  • Opportunities
  • Injury

• I had a very modest upbringing.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Very
  • Had
  • Upbringing

• The essential lesson I've learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you're not here as a human being only. You're a spiritual being having a human experience.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Spiritual

• In TV, you don't know everything. The writers only give you scripts before you shoot the episodes. They keep you on your nerve.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • You
  • Know
  • Everything

• If children haven't been read to, they don't love books. They need to love books, for books are the basis of literature, composition, history, world events, vocabulary, and everything else.

  

  Edith Schaeffer
  • World
  • Children
  • Book

• You have young men of color in many communities who are more likely to end up in jail or in the criminal justice system than they are in a good job or in college. And, you know, part of my job, that I can do, I think, without any potential conflicts, is to get at those root causes.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Good
  • Men

• I always thought filet mignon was the steak to beat, but the fat content in a rib eye is fantastic.

  

  Neil Patrick Harris

• I have thought about the next steps, and you know, they still don't know that I can dance. They don't know it, and it's frustrating me because I feel that it's an edge that I have, and I'm not talking about I took this hip hop class, I'm talking about this is how people actually know me.

  

  Naima Adedapo
  • People
  • Dance
  • Thought

• My mom gave me a Chanel dress when I was younger. I felt special. I think anybody feels special in Chanel.

  

  Lily-Rose Depp
  • Mom

• Podcasts immersed me in colloquial English and put me back in the American zeitgeist.

  

  Pamela Druckerman
  • American
  • English