Diane Ackerman Quotes
I'm fascinated how often and with what whole-heartedness people will risk their lives to perform acts of courage, sacrifice, and compassion for total strangers.Diane Ackerman
Quotes to Explore
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
D. A. Pennebaker -
A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
Nadia Boulanger -
I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.
Yvonne Strahovski -
I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.
Uri Geller -
As long as I love Beauty I am young.
W. H. Davies -
I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.
Patrick Demarchelier
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Now I can walk into a room full of people I don't know and do my job. That's quite a massive thing to learn, I think.
Kate Moss -
I don't know if I'm a tortured soul, but I was born heartbroken. I remember feeling it when I was so young. I was like, 'Mum, it hurts.'
FKA twigs -
I think that there should be options available, quite early on, that if someone is recognised as a disruptive child, for them to be trained vocationally. Maybe if those kids were given the option to learn how to contribute to society on a practical level they wouldn't get into trouble.
Paloma Faith -
Lincoln was the spokesman of the rising capitalist class of the North, who viewed the emancipation of Negro slaves as indispensable to the development and triumph of the manufacturers and bankers of the industrial North, East and West over the slave-holder of the South.
A. Philip Randolph -
We are quick to stick labels on others - especially those who don't fit in with the norm. 'Harold Fry' is about a broken marriage; 'Perfect' is about a broken person. They are both about finding kindness where you least expect it.
Rachel Joyce -
What I've discovered and try to integrate into my show is when you're up there, and you are loud and more visible, you're setting a tone for how people can behave and how they can feel comfortable behaving.
K. Flay
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I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'
Tamsin Egerton -
'No Bones' has some reverb that I kick around.
J Mascis -
Our biggest single theme is trying to make the NIH work better with the same amount of money.
Harold E. Varmus -
I never go wild with nails.
Abbey Clancy -
While we can learn from U.S. models, we certainly can't practice them.
Victor Koo -
My dad was a firefighter for almost 30 years. My mom worked her way up from a secretary to vice president of her own company. They taught me to work hard for everything and take nothing for granted. That's how I play.
J. J. Watt
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I don't think I'd be a very good parent. I'd be too honest.
Karl Pilkington -
Health system development is a key to effective detection, response, and control of any outbreak.
Margaret Chan -
I always tell people there's only one trick to writing: You have to write something that people are willing to pay money to read. It doesn't have to be very good, necessarily, but somebody, somewhere, has got to be willing to pay money for it.
Bill Bryson -
I know that some people think differently about pilots, but I really enjoyed shooting 'Awakening'.
Lucy Griffiths -
Anything that's signed by me on EBay is a forgery and not authentic.
Brett Hull -
I'm fascinated how often and with what whole-heartedness people will risk their lives to perform acts of courage, sacrifice, and compassion for total strangers.
Diane Ackerman