Pamela Druckerman Quotes
When I left for college, I put Miami behind me and tried to have a life of the mind. I got a graduate degree. I traveled. I even married a fellow writer, whose only real estate was a dingy one-bedroom apartment in Paris, where we lived.
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You can learn from everyone, the president or the cleaner. You need teachers in life, but they're not always school teachers or professors. You learn from ordinary people. You learn from travel, from just walking down the street.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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You can de-select the songs that you don't want to have on the record, but I hope we always put something out that has a lot of songs that the majority of people will love.
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.
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I'm such a big TLC fan, so I love singing 'Waterfalls' in the shower.
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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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I've been fighting amidst a lot of opposition from both Hillary Clinton as well as some Republicans who wanted to send arms to the allies of ISIS. ISIS rides around in a billion dollars worth of U.S. Humvees. It's a disgrace. We've got to stop - we shouldn't fund our enemies, for goodness sakes.
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You can over-think things. If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorising rather than being real.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure.
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When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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Just as I try to find ways to be more productive every year for myself, I also look for tips to pass on to young professionals.
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I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
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In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
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One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.
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I'm very, very focused on my children. In fact, I'm very religious about having breakfast with them every morning, having dinner with them every evening, and spend all the weekends with them that I don't work. So as long as I'm not traveling, I'm always with them and I go to their soccer and tennis matches.
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If we want girls to receive positive reinforcement for early acts of leadership, let's discourage bossy behavior along with banning bossy labels. That means teaching girls to engage in behaviors that earn admiration before they assert their authority.
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What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?
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Liberal Education makes not the Christian, not the Catholic, but the gentleman. It is well to be a gentlemen, it is well to have a cultivated intellect, a delicate taste, a candid, equitable, dispassionate mind, a noble and courteous bearing in the conduct of life.
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In this life all that I have is my word and my balls and I do not break them for nobody.
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When I left for college, I put Miami behind me and tried to have a life of the mind. I got a graduate degree. I traveled. I even married a fellow writer, whose only real estate was a dingy one-bedroom apartment in Paris, where we lived.
