Pamela Druckerman Quotes
Around my neighborhood, I'm known as the American who talks to her computer while she types.
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Celebs says we have no time for love, but I wouldn't say that.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
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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.
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I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.
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Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
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Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
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Before my son was born, I use to tell people that I was looking forward to no longer being the star of my own movie; then Harry came along, and it was like, 'Whoa, I'm really not!'
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When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
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Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
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Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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I still pray a lot. I still believe in God. I just don't believe in any set religion.
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Theatre sports is the best improv training period.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'
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To be a contrarian, you've got to be a contrarian against your own people.
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Oh, I was a real Nirvana kid. I got into jazz because I listened to a lot of metal, Megadeth and that, and those guys play really fast and are virtuosos. I wanted to learn more about it, and I discovered that a lot of jazz guys played really fast, too.
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Around my neighborhood, I'm known as the American who talks to her computer while she types.
