Pamela Druckerman Quotes
I gradually understood why European mothers aren't in perpetual panic about their work-life balance and don't write books about how executive moms should just try harder: Their governments are helping them - and doing it competently.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.
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I mean there are many people who have endorsed me that I agree with on some things and not others.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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'Mahershala' is my nickname.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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Without husbands, women have to focus on earning more. They work longer hours, they're willing to relocate and they're more likely to choose higher-paying fields like technology.
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There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay the fun.
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Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.
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My first gig was a Corn Pops commercial. I did the first Vanilla Coke campaign. A Juicy Fruit commercial paid my bills for years.
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I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.
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If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.
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Nobody is impervious to misfortune.
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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
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It is the central bank governor, unlike other regulators or government secretaries, who has command over significant policy levers and has to occasionally disagree with the most powerful people in the country.
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Blackness remains the coat you can't take off.
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Education was the motor that allowed me to make my way up the ladder.
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I've been in this business 31 years. I've never had a movie deal.
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Some days, I don't recognise my country, and other days, I see people being vocal and passionate, and I think, 'There's my country.'
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I'm into books - I love literature, so I toyed with the idea of being an English teacher. I had a fantastic English teacher at school. I think great English teachers make the world go round.
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I gradually understood why European mothers aren't in perpetual panic about their work-life balance and don't write books about how executive moms should just try harder: Their governments are helping them - and doing it competently.
