Diane Ackerman Quotes
Tranquillity hides in small spaces, and when found needs to be treasured, because you know it's a phantom that will slip away again.
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The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.
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I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.'
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The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I have used well-known people in my work. I'm interested in what's going on beneath the facades they present to the world, taking them to a place which is uncomfortable.
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We welcome Chinese investment in the United States with open arms.
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I read mails throughout the day but answer mails more in the morning and evening.
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I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a bookseller and then as a sales rep and publicist and then various editorial jobs until I ended up with HarperCollins in Australia.
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Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
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This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them.
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I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.
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There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.
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It's a huge step up from the European Indoors to then being a gold medallist at the World Championships.
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I am married.
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I'm a bit of a control freak.
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It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.
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I guess I'm attracted to people who are singing about love or life, and they have a particular passion that I can connect with.
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I do believe in soulmates and happy/successful marriages. No marriage can be happy 24x7 for 365 days. Both partners have to make the relationship work, is what I believe in.
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I don't see myself in the political realm.
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I honestly think that kids should not exercise: they should keep fit through play. The most important age is zero to seven, both for the kid and the parent - for parents, because this is the time when your kid learns how to walk, talk and other behaviour.
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The Pakistani government under Musharraf is a strong and key player in the global war on terrorism, and their contribution has been second to none.
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I am interested in all aspects of filmmaking, so I have an opinion on every aspect, so sound design, score, cinematography, editing - all that stuff I have experience doing myself, so I had a very strong idea of what I wanted, and I got, for the most part, people that were able to articulate that idea, which was nice.
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The cosmos exploded, actualizing its potentiality of space and time. The centers of power, like fragments of a bursting bomb, were hurled apart. But each one retained in itself, as a memory and a longing, the single point of the whole; and each mirrored in itself aspects of all the others throughout all the cosmical space and time.
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Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive.
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And the whole Oscar thing, that is just surreal: you spend months and months doing promotion, and then come back to reality with this golden thing in your hands. You put it in the office and then you just have to look at it sitting on the shelf. And, after about two weeks, you go: 'What is that doing there?'
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Tranquillity hides in small spaces, and when found needs to be treasured, because you know it's a phantom that will slip away again.
