Diane Ackerman Quotes
Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.
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I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.'
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I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many scholars believe his work intentionally provides clues to a powerful secret... a secret that remains protected to this day by a clandestine brotherhood of which Da Vinci was a member.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
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I've never graced the cover of a fashion magazine.
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Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
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We always learn more from the losing than the winning.
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I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!
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You have this enormous network and no one knows what's out there.
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It is a very great mistake, common to counsel, and especially to young counsel, to consider that a decision of any court must necessarily command the respect of another.
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The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.
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There's only one life. There's no repeats. You only get one life, and you gotta take advantage of it.
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She waits for me; my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs;I'll say her nay, and hide away, Then take her by surprise.
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As with my hat upon my headI walk'd along the Strand,I there did meet another manWith his hat in his hand.
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Politics is everywhere. It’s in your shirt, it’s in your pants. It’s everywhere.
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The busier you are, the more interesting you are. The more you're off doing your thing and loving your job and your life, that's fascinating.
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You don't realize until afterwards that if you feed the subconscious, it will bleed into your everyday life.
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Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.
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My notion about any artist is that we honor him best by reading him, by playing his music, by seeing his plays or by looking at his pictures. We don't need to fall all over ourselves with adjectives and epithets. Let's play him more.
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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.
