Diane Ackerman Quotes
Living with anyone for many years takes skill. To keep peace in the household, couples learn to adapt to one another, hopefully in positive ways.
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I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
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To this day, I've never figured out a single locked-room mystery.
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No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
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Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
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We do not have the idea that all children are valuable parts of society. We only have the idea that our own children are.
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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
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In college, I was a huge fan of 'Les Miserables.' I seem to remember that people who were into French literature preferred Hugo's poetry.
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The U.S. along with China, Japan, South Korea and Russia has an important role to play in containing North Korea's nuclear ambitions and exerting all the influence we can possibly exert.
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I was 19, and I thought I should settle down and get a real job, and what was I doing living this dream world?
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I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.
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I kind of liked the idea of filming musicians. I could like a musician and know, at the same time, maybe nobody else maybe liked them much or appreciated them.
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What goes on between the actor and director is sacred.
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We in this entertainment industry try to act like we're so super powerful. we're not being honest, because we're human, and in our humanity there's a little fear.
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Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
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Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the District of Columbia, parted Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, and wandered for forty years in Delaware.
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I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where I don't think sex plays much part.
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Since I started in Nascar, popularity has definitely gone up. I've become more attractive and helpful to companies that are looking for spokespersons. So from that perspective, things are going really well.
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I haven't shaken my fists at the moon.
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As I was looking around, to me, what was happening in the blockchain and crypto world was a movement.
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The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't.
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After 40 years of not playing, I admit I'm totally in love with my guitar. It's a Froggy Bottom acoustic steel string guitar. All I have to do is hit a couple of clean chords and the endorphins are right there. It's like the top of my head has come off and stardust and magic have fallen in.
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I was at a point of asking God whether acting was what He really wanted me to do. Oprah Winfrey came to one of my workshops, and a couple of months later, she reached out to Uncle BeBe, who co-wrote 'Born For This.' Oprah told him she was interested in me for the role of Charity on 'Greenleaf' and asked him to help her contact me.
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If you're eating or drinking something made from cow's milk, it's because a calf chained in a box somewhere isn't.
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Living with anyone for many years takes skill. To keep peace in the household, couples learn to adapt to one another, hopefully in positive ways.
