Diane Ackerman Quotes

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• I want to play interesting women.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Women
  • Want
  • Interesting

• I also think it's very important to consider how the food will feel to the person eating it.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Important
  • Think
  • Food

• Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • News

• You think of movies like 'Midnight Run' and '48 Hours', those are great movies, especially 'Midnight Run.'

  

  Adam McKay
  • Great
  • Think
  • Movies

• I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Literature
  • See
  • Fiction

• Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• I'm quite British; I've got big, flat feet, and I can't wear heels. I've got very, very pale Celtic skin, so my legs are always a frightening blue color. So when you take out clothes that reveal your legs, shoes that have any kind of heel, no shop will actually take my money.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Money
  • Color
  • Blue

• I'm just a worker.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Just
  • Worker

• I only know what I read in the papers.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Know
  • Read
  • Only

• For women especially, it's important to be financially independent.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Important
  • Women
  • Independent

• Fast bowling is an art, like spin bowling.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Art
  • Fast
  • Bowling

• Never should an unfamiliar word be passed over without elucidation, for, with a little conscientious research, we may each day add to our conquests in the realm of philology and become more and more ready for graceful independent expression.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • May
  • Day
  • Independent

• I am hoping for a long career.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Career
  • Hoping

• The worst thing a man can ever do is kiss me on the first date.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Man
  • Me
  • Kiss

• The older supermodels sometimes don't agree with the fact there is a new generation of models. We're not saying we're supermodels. I'd rather people look at us as businesspeople, and, yes, modeling is our business right now, but we're not trying to take anybody's spot, and we're not trying to discredit the past.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • People
  • Trying
  • Business

• Hema ji is a dedicated artist and a perfectionist who continues to rehearse on her lines till she gets them right.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • She
  • Artist
  • Perfectionist

• I'm a fan of action movies.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Action
  • Movies
  • Fan

• I thank Him every chance I get - on my knees praying.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Chance
  • Him
  • Knees

• Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think about it.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Stop

• I'm going to take full advantage of my opportunities.

  

  Austin Seferian-Jenkins

• 1925's 'The Lost World' is... really, everything a dinosaur movie should be. Like a dinosaur, this classic was once extinct too, existing as mere fragmentary footage and stills, but cinemaphile fossil-hunters have painstakingly excavated bits and pieces from obscure archives and assembled them into a nearly-complete animal.

  

  Kage Baker
  • World
  • Movie
  • Lost

• I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.

  

  Tatyana Tolstaya
  • Art
  • Want
  • You

• It's animal by animal that you save a species.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Animal