Pamela Druckerman Quotes
Soccer may not explain the world or even contain the world. But it makes the world a slightly happier place.
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From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
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Accomplish something every day of your life.
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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Hi, I'm Nadine Velazquez, and my green tip is: recycle.
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You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
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If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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I was lucky that I got to do films in between seasons of 'Chuck.'
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I've always felt that color is intrinsically personal. It evokes a tremendous amount of emotion. If there's a color you respond to, that's something you can incorporate into your home. No one can tell you it's wrong.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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I consider myself a progressive. I have a passion for people who work. To me, this is about forward looking versus backward looking. Ideological gradations are the wrong way to look at it.
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Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
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If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you'll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it.
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I sometimes think if I had gone to Oxford or Cambridge and looked like a handsome young guy who could be in an Evelyn Waugh novel or something, I'd be a massive movie star. But there's a longevity to what I do. It's more reliable. Someone isn't deciding that I'm the next big thing.
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The Outsider may be an artist, but the artist is not necessarily an Outsider.
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Depressions, local and larger strikes, boom times, wars, repressions, all impact a life as do epidemics such as AIDS and pollution that may take years off a person's life. We all, whether we like it or not and whether we acknowledge it or not, are impacted by the racial attitudes we carry within us, and experience in some form every time we turn on the television, the radio, go to a movie, read a magazine or a newspaper, or walk down the street.
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If that is what this world is, what humans are... There is no future. Understanding and faith... If you take those away, all that's left is fear. I can't accept immoral methods or giving up.
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Soccer may not explain the world or even contain the world. But it makes the world a slightly happier place.
