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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Some people do crossword puzzles. I do books.
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Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.
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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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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.
