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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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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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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The compulsively readable events of my life occurred mainly in infancy, and it's been pretty humdrum ever since.
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My relationship with my body has changed. I used to consider it as a servant who should obey, function, give pleasure. In sickness, you realise that you are not the boss. It is the other way around.
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It was just as if somebody inside him were saying, 'Now then, Pooh, time for a little something.'
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Our contemporary analogues to the personal notebook now live on the web - communal, crowdsourced, and shared online in real time. Some of the most interesting and vital work I come across exists only in pixels.
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Nothing will deter us from building the future we want for our children. What greater rejection of those who would tear down our world than marshaling our best efforts to save it.
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I don't think you can force a moral opinion or you can force something through a Bollywood film.
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Soccer may not explain the world or even contain the world. But it makes the world a slightly happier place.
