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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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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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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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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You never get quite down to the bottom of the barrel, but we are much higher than that at the present time. There is quite a lot left in the barrel that could be explained by them. If they have some weapons, if they have some anthrax, they should deliver that.
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Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.
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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
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Quite simply, my writing life has been one of relish, challenge, excitement.
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I spent a lot of my time working in the American module, and he would stay in the Russian segment working on his things, and we'd meet up at meal times. So it actually worked out very well.
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Describe character using dialogue. Describe character using what the characters see or do or think, but not what they had done or where they had been.
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I have never been embedded with the American army or, you know, with the big war machine.
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Around my neighborhood, I'm known as the American who talks to her computer while she types.
