Diane Ackerman Quotes
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I will do today what others won't so I can do tomorrow what others can't.
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To be allowed for the first time in your later career to play leading parts in extremely popular movies is not a situation to worry about.
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Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
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My childhood was appalling.
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Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.
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I do want people to see me as a well-rounded actress, not just someone who plays in 'Turtle' movies.
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When I'm writing a record, I kind of don't listen to much music. Just because I want to be inspired solely on the emotion; just based on how it feels.
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Ain't nobody making music to not be heard and the easiest way to be heard is to be on the radio, but you should never compromise who you are, your values or your morals.
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Beyonce's the only contemporary artist that I really, really idolize.
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One thing that stays the same is my passion for music. Other than that, I've become more dedicated. I think that I really work much harder than I ever did when I first started at my craft; I'm more dedicated, and I have become a perfectionist.
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Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.
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We have turned the corner, ... any deviations or surprises.
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The safari was amazing, to actually see the elephants and the Lions up close and then right at the end to actually get in the cage with the Lion was one of the best moments of the tour.
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O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.
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But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most... he saw fireflies where there were none.
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Christianity is being concerned about [others], not building a million-dollar church while people are starving right around the corner. Christ was a revolutionary person, out there where it was happening. That's what God is all about, and that's where I get my strength.
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In the midst of darkness, light persists.
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I've given up reading the papers. Since the world's so obviously bent on killing itself, I decided months ago to sit back and let it.
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In memoir, you have to be particularly careful not to alienate the reader by making the material seem too lived-in. It mustn't have too much of the smell of yourself, otherwise the reader will be unable to make it her own.
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There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of Milton is that he functions as a Milton.
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I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.
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It is possible to argue that our present conception of revolution was staked out more securely in science than in political action.
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Smell is the mute sense, the one without words.
