Diane Ackerman Quotes
If cynicism is inevitable as one ages, so is the yearning for innocence. To children heaven is being an adult, and to adults heaven is being children again.
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Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.
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I usually decide what to wear in the morning, but sometimes, I'll have a favorite coat or sweater or shoes, and I'll wear them everyday for a week!
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A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
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Conformity is dangerous.
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.
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You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.
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The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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I'm a '90s baby.
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While they're building a solid foundation that will support whatever is coming down the road, Todd and I are itching to see further, to push the envelope.
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
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Sometimes stereotyping happens not because of any nefarious reasons but rather because people don't know who you are or where you come from, so they go for the broad strokes about you, your culture, your faith, all that.
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It would be a sad story to get rid of religious belief, national identity, family, and even sexual identity. That's not freedom.
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American actresses have more problems than I do; I'm lucky to be able to play what I want for a smaller audience, because I have my own country to do that in.
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The lowest common denominator of the universe is both low and common.
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I don't think anything could prepare you for whatever fame is. Fame is a very hard word to define cause it means different things to different people for different reasons so I never really think of it as fame, I think of it as part of the job.
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People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.
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I was very fortunate in having David Fincher, the director come to me. Now I've seen the finished product, I feel that every bit of the nine months we spent on the film was worth it.
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I've been jailed once, put in police lock-up twice, and was under house arrest twice.
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If cynicism is inevitable as one ages, so is the yearning for innocence. To children heaven is being an adult, and to adults heaven is being children again.
