Diane Ackerman Quotes
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There is no bore like a clever bore.
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I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.
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I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well.
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I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
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I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.
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I'm not wed to bitcoin's blockchain. I'm blockchain-agnostic.
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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
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As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
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The reason why books endure is because there are enough people who like them. It's the only reason why books last.
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Christmas albums are not something you do frequently.
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We worked lightly even in the heaviest parts.
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I love Mount Fuji and I think it is my love of the mountains in Japan that led me to seek other mountains around the world.
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I would be ecstatic if the very first writer to step foot in a Storyknife cabin was an Alaska Native woman writer.
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Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself.
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I'm obsessed with things that are distinctly analogue.
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An amateur can be great in front of the camera, but you need an education to get on stage where you have full control as an actor.
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The 1st period is won by the best technician. The 2nd period is won by the kid in the best shape. The 3rd period is won by the kid with the biggest heart.
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Traditionally, marriage is one arena where states have all but plenary power; it took until 1967 for the Supreme Court to tell states they could not prohibit interracial marriage.
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The New Testament doesn't present Jesus as a single man to cover up his humanity. It presents him as a single man because... he was a single man.
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Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.
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Don't just live the length of your life - live the width of it as well.
