Diane Ackerman Quotes
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
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I've never been a partier.
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I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
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I think the sidekick makes the number one look good.
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Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'
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Custom reconciles us to everything.
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It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.
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The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.
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If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.
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The way to resumption is to resume.
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You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.
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You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.
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I'm like the wine. The older I get, the better I get.
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As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.
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We should craft our laws to allow images of criminal suspects to be captured in public - but also to make sure that the government does not unduly infringe on the privacy rights of innocent citizens.
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My wife has been incredibly supportive of me as a writer. Trying really hard to make sure I get the space and time I need to work as a writer and being willing to make some of the sacrifices that you have to make to live the life of an artist.
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Make your life a masterpiece; imagine no limitations on what you can be, have or do
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It's a very dull thing to watch, a writer at work. So dull that whole casts of characters show up just to watch the boring writer writing.
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I really was a fan of his and always have been - his writing especially, you know? I think people a lot of times overlook that part, because he kind of got into that party character so heavy.
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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
