Diane Ackerman Quotes
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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
V. S. Naipaul -
Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
Camilla Lackberg -
For the most part, it's a very male-dominated business. Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that, even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
Madchen Amick -
The first bike that I bought was a Triumph 650. I really like the Triumph 650. I mean, of course, I've driven Harleys, and I think in 'Savage Seven' I drove an Indian, but - I really love Triumph.
Larry Bishop -
The hardest thing to do and most miserable films are comedies.
Eddie Marsan -
I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
Patricia Ireland
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If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
Jack Lemmon -
I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
Lady Gaga -
The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.
C. Everett Koop -
The Taliban has not, in my judgment, in any significant way changed their fundamental goal and objective, which is to take over Afghanistan and return to running that country. It doesn't mean that we shouldn't have negotiation talks with them. I think we should. But we've got to be clear-eyed about it.
Jack Keane -
I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.
Garry Trudeau -
I am a person who holds the aesthetic high. I have suits made in Savile Row.
Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
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If a writer is always trying to keep a narrator emitting a tone of complete knowingness, it can become false.
Rachel Kushner -
'Why did you stop at a red light and let me hit you doin' 80?!'
Dane Cook -
As for the Soothsayer, although I am certain no one feels the true beauties of that work better than I, I am far from finding these beauties in the same places as the infatuated public does. They are not the products of study and knowledge, but rather are inspired by taste and sensitivity.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
I think it's just a nerve-wracking thing to sing in a movie in general.
Brittany Snow -
I was an early adopter of the 'Hunger Games.' I read them before they were best sellers - I was on the pre-order wait list for 'Mockingjay' on Amazon.
Elizabeth Banks -
Poland understands as few other nations do that every nation must be free to chart its own course, to forge its own partnerships, to choose its own allies.
Barack Obama
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Single female life is not prescription, but its opposite: liberation.
Rebecca Traister -
If we are ever to halt climate change and conserve land, water and other resources, not to mention reduce animal suffering, we must celebrate Earth Day every day - at every meal.
Ingrid Newkirk -
And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father.
Black Elk -
We have vexed and bothered every plant and every animal on every continent.
Diane Ackerman