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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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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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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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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I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.
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Over the years, TV has gotten so much better, especially with the advent of cable. The bar has been raised. I think HBO really set the standard with 'The Sopranos,' and then on mainstream TV, shows like 'Lost' broke amazing ground.
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You never say and do the things you wish you had said or done when someone close to you may not be around in awhile. Closure is impossible; that's the heart of the grief you will carry with you for the rest of your life.
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There are many photographs which are full of life but which are confusing and difficult to remember. It is the force of an image which matters.
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Failure means nothing now, only that it taught me life.
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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.
