Diane Ackerman Quotes
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I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.
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Well, my type is obviously creative. Creative, with burning eyes and a pretty mouth.
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I do love doing films; I love going out and creating different characters for each film, and not having to be stuck with one role for many, many years. It's a creative liberty that I love.
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Suppose I put polka dots all over my body and then cover my background completely with polka dots. The polka dots on my body, merging with those in the background, create an optically strange scene.
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I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.
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Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
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I am constantly distracted by my own brain when I've completed a paragraph, realized I don't know what comes next, and start opening a browser tab without even realizing it.
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But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.
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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
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It's a little strange to become a kind of symbol of a whole type of analysis.
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Guys act strange around me. I swear I don't know why!
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Almost always, when we have fights in movies, they're done in these strange rooms where nothing gets broken. It's almost like they're in padded cells.
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Proficiency in a craft is essential to every artist. Therein lies the prime source of creative imagination. Let us then create a new guild of craftsmen without the class distinctions that raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist!
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I credit my mom with inspiring in me a love of design, matched by her creative problem-solving abilities. This is a woman who could find an old, discarded piece of furniture, bring it home and turn it into something fabulous.
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I do love being solo because I can have more of my own creative input to every aspect of my career.
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I don't really understand why so many fantasy writers choose to focus on worlds that just seem strangely denuded. But to them, I guess it doesn't seem strange. And I guess that's their privilege. It isn't mine.
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Some movies bring out the creativity in you. Every single audience member can become creative in the face of a particular movie. If you happen to like my films, it's because my films provide a bed for you on which you can find your creativity. The Hollywood movies do not provide that for you.
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Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.
