Pamela Druckerman Quotes

I think kids in France, and certainly in my household, don't necessarily stop interrupting when you tell them, but they gradually become more aware of other people, and that means that you can have the expectation of finishing a conversation.

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• Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!

  

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• Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

  

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• I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.

  

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• If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.

  

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• I am musical and I enjoy theatre, but I never wanted to just do theatre. I always wanted to go into film. I love film. I loved growing up in the theatre, but I always wanted to do film all along. But, I still pursue music separately.

  

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• I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.

  

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• It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.

  

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• I happen to be the kind of reader who, if I like something, I don't want it to end.

  

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• I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.

  

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• Are your people uncomfortable during meetings and tired at the end? If not, they're probably not mixing it up enough and getting to the bottom of important issues.

  

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• I think that, a lot of times in Hollywood pictures, the reality, the messy reality of women's lives - it's avoided, because I think people are just afraid of it. There's a standard that women are set to, to try to keep everybody comfortable.

  

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• This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.

  

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• Horseback riding is my passion. Other than work. People can't imagine me getting dirty, but that's what I love about it.

  

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• There are 3.5 million Americans in Puerto Rico. So, just like we're quick to go everywhere else and help, we expect that same of America for Puerto Rico. These are U.S. citizens!

  

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• I have a close association with Gen. Petraeus... What you get in Dave Petraeus is a very unique officer, a combination of intelligence, extraordinary depth of knowledge and understanding.

  

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• It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.

  

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• Remember that you have to be happy to make other people happy. Don't get weighed down by duty, guilt, and responsibility all the time.

  

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• It's a lovely thing to be able to sing.

  

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• If women really did have complete equality with men, society would be completely overturned.

  

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• We've always been fascinated with movie stars and singers, but the fascination with people who really have nothing to offer is something new.

  

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• I think kids in France, and certainly in my household, don't necessarily stop interrupting when you tell them, but they gradually become more aware of other people, and that means that you can have the expectation of finishing a conversation.

  

  Pamela Druckerman
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