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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I always knew I'd go back to school. Modeling was a means to an end, making money for graduate school.
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It is easy to know when a government wishes for peace by observing the character of the person sent to negotiate for it.
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The only duty an artist has is in the quality of the art. There is no moral obligation to denounce. An artist confronted with a tremendous injustice sometimes feels inclined to say something. Denouncing the situation is the artist's choice.
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America's ranchers and farmers produce the highest-quality products in the world.
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Soccer may not explain the world or even contain the world. But it makes the world a slightly happier place.
