Diane Ackerman Quotes
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At school, I always felt the art room was the place where you could sit and talk. It was a place of solace. I wasn't the best artist at school by a long shot; it was more the understanding and the support that came from that room.
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Prayer is more than words. It's listening, seeing and feeling.
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The animal rights cause is something close to my heart and something I truly believe in.
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It's just hard to meet new people, in my position.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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Can't sleep unless the TV is on.
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Follow your instinct. That's my message.
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As I'm getting older, I'm getting funkier. So that's what I'm wearing. Funky shoes.
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For the most part, Hollywood is very transactional. People want to make movies and television shows.
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A man who limits his interests limits his life.
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Dialogue is a non-confrontational communication, where both partners are willing to learn from the other and therefore leads much farther into finding new grounds together
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You find when you're writing a detective story that you're actually not trying to solve anything. You're trying to stop the reader from solving the puzzle.
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Fun from games arises out of mastery. It arises out of comprehension. It is the act of solving puzzles that makes games fun. In other words, with games, learning is the drug.
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If you are curious, you'll find the puzzles around you. If you are determined, you will solve them.
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My first months in Sofia were a time of intense disorientation: I had never been to that part of the world before; I could barely speak the language; everything seemed strange to me.
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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points.
