Pamela Druckerman Quotes

I'm dying to go to India... because the culture seems so vastly different from what I'm used to in the States. I would love to do some yoga there. And be amongst people who are so different than myself. There's so much you can learn from people who grew up in a different environment.

So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.

Before I got married, I dated the gamut.

The expat life was a good one: There was my French boyfriend. My bright two-bedroom flat in Islington. My wine at lunch. I had a 'go bag' packed with loose linens and mosquito repellent - I was ready to be flung to the outer edges of the world at a moment's notice. It was all intrigue and adventure.

I want to get a master's degree in... psychology.

As far as my experience of matrimony goes -- I think it tends to draw you out of, and away from yourself.

In the past I had to deal with issues that hit me as a younger man. As a man who wasn't married who didn't really have the experience that I have now. Today I'm a different guy.

A man can only grow to a certain point when alone; to grow further you need some "irrational shocks", like a wife and children; a dramatic change to your own life.

When I turned twenty-five, I did a six-week trip around Europe by myself. I'd never really done a European trip before and I'd definitely never traveled alone like that. I just had such a great time meeting people. I had such a great time seeing new cultures and different ways that people think and different ways that they live and different ways that they see the world.

Undergrad, for me, in college was really about, you know, how do I become a professional. But business school, for me, was how do I become the person that I'm meant to be.

That's what university life is all about. Challenging, questioning, enjoying good people and good friends, and pushing yourself to the limit.

In America, kids would go to college and get out and buy a second-hand car and go across the country and discover America. I never did that; I went from New York to Paris, and New York was my America.

In some ways I've gone to Cash and Carter graduate school.

There are some cities that you go to that bring something out of you. Toronto is one of them.

I have found a love for acting, but I also would like to live abroad for awhile or definitely go to college someday.

I spent a lot of time in college. I was just being academic and discovering myself through reason and analysis.

Getting chronic Lyme disease is probably the fastest way to figure out what and who is real in your life.

Getting married and really digging in with another human being can point out your greatest strengths and your greatest weaknesses.

I was doing something of my own after I left The Moody Blues, I went away, lived in Spain for a while.

I was in law school at the University of Kentucky and realized I didn't really like law school, so I took a creative writing course for something different.

Getting married and divorced really is a learning experience.

I went to Germany taking a chance on seeing what Europe was like, and taking on that new challenge. Obviously it wasn't for me at the time, but I always had that goal to come back to the U.S. and work hard and hopefully go back to Europe.

Jerry didn't know he wanted to get married until he was married.

Going to university is, and should be, so much more than a mechanical process of grinding out a degree qualification for a pre-determined career path.

I got some funky scholarships to play soccer and did well in my SATs, so I went off to college and then grad school but found that that wasn't me. My family, relieved I seemed to have come to my senses, were happy to let me go to film school.