Diane Ackerman Quotes
Because poets feel what we're afraid to feel, venture where we're reluctant to go, we learn from their journeys without taking the same dramatic risks.
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The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive.
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I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.
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I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.
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I climb mountains.
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My working history as an actor is definitely in the theatre; it certainly was in Australia.
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In many ways, I feel like having the opportunity to play Gogol in 'The Namesake' really was my dream role in many ways.
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Life wasn't easy growing up; it was frustrating. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily, everything would have come easily, and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.
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A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it. But it is unbecoming in an artist to talk about inspiration; that is the reader's business.
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It's not going to stop until 'we' stop it. And it's not just white man that's doing this to Brenda. It's not just white man that's keeping us trapped. It's 'black.' And we have to find the new African in everybody... But before we can be African, we gotta be black first.
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When we do well, we do the best comedy on TV. That's not ego; that's just the way it is.
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Abandoning open society for fear of terrorism is the only way to be defeated by it.
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Descend, descend, Urania, speak To men in their own tongue! Leave not the breaking heart to break Because thine own is strong. This is the law, in dream and deed, That heaven must walk on earth! O, shine upon the humble creed That holds the heavenly birth.
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There were evictions that I saw that I know I'll never forget. In one case, the sheriff and the movers came up on a house full of children. The mom had passed away, and the children had just gone on living there. And the sheriff executed the eviction order - moved the kids' stuff out on the street on a cold, rainy day.
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You don't have to always write about big stuff. Writing is about expressing yourself, you know? It can be about small stuff, too.
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I make movies in order to make things understood, not to be shocking.
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You can learn to write. But what you write is something that depends on your taste and on your vision or whatever. Also, of course, the music I listened to inspired my idea of music. When people ask me "Where's your inspiration? Where does it come from?" I have no idea. Music is about music. Not about life and love.
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To Dare is to risk losing your foothold for a moment, Not to Dare is to risk losing yourself.
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There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
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I couldn't date someone who didn't like dogs. There are exceptions to the rule, but I find that if someone doesn't like animals, I am a little suspicious of them.
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Because poets feel what we're afraid to feel, venture where we're reluctant to go, we learn from their journeys without taking the same dramatic risks.
