Pamela Druckerman Quotes

I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.

If you can live in Paris, maybe you should.

I have two loves: my country and Paris.

I never thought I'd be comfortable living outside South Africa, but we love London. Our two kids were born here.

You can spend your whole life in France without ever thinking about the Legion.

I was born in Romania and later lived in Vienna, Austria, for a few years, and I eventually made my way over to New York in '95.

I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of cutting those ties. There is absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly not, so that I can have a swimming pool and a palm tree.

I left Colombia because Univision brought me to the United States.

I love Australia. My dream would be to have a place to live there and be able to commute back and forth.

When I was 20, I went to Paris and tried to meet French women. It didn't work.

I was born in Havana, Cuba and raised in Madrid, Spain. Then I moved to New Jersey.

I love London. I would move here. I like British people; everybody is so down to earth.

I've done a lot of things away from my homeland.

I can't move back to England. My home is in France now. I'd love to but I can't. My family's all there now.

I would love to be in New York, but it's really hard to be unemployed in New York. Everyone's got a place to be. In L.A., there's a system, a science to being unemployed.

I love getting to bounce around and explore so much. I love Scandinavia. I love Spain. It's so mystical and romantic, yet it's gritty.

I love England but everything that has happened makes me realise that I would be better off in the States.

I don't know where my romanticism comes from. My mom and dad would read to me a lot. 'Treasure Island,' 'Robinson Crusoe,' tales of chivalry and knights, things like that. Those are the stories I loved growing up.

I want to travel. Maybe I'll end up living in Norway, making cakes.

Paris is always a good idea.

Paris is one of the most beautiful places in all the world. Unfortunately, I was so homesick I couldn't appreciate its beauty.

I was 12 when my parents told me we were moving to Lebanon. I remember thinking, 'Leba-who?' I had absolutely no concept of the place.

I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. I treasure it in the sense that I believe it's a path of great courage. It can also be the path of the foolhardy and the compulsive.

Most of the people in New York are very often from somewhere else.

There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.