Diane Ackerman Quotes
We can't enchant the world, which makes its own magic; but we can enchant ourselves by paying deep attention
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.
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There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
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I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
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For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.
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I am attracted by almost any French word - written or spoken. Before I knew its meaning, I thought 'saucisson' so exquisite that it seemed the perfect name to give a child - until I learned it meant 'sausage!'
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I've never really identified with the way a typical alpha male views women. It's always an awkward forum for me to hang out with another guy and talk about girls, because I can't really find a way to fit in.
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Tahir Pasha assigned me a room when I was staying in his residence, and every night before sleeping, I would spend around three hours going over the books I had memorized. It would take me three months to go through the lot. Thanks be to God, all those works became steps ascending to the truths of the Qur'an.
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A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
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You know those award shows. The cliche is that it's an honor just to be nominated, but that happens to be true. Whoever wins it in the end, I don't know, sometimes it feels arbitrary. Sometimes it feels like it's deserving.
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I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.
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Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.
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I'm old-school English, so I suppose I'm quite protective - especially of time. Now that I'm a father, every moment is precious.
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'Muppets' is incredibly analog, 'Alice' is very digital.
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I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project.
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One thing I admire about the Eagles is they always seem to know what they want. They always seem to know why they want it. They always seem to want it at the same time.
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I think a lot of people came into rock n' roll to try to change the world. I came into rock n' roll to make music.
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I think you have to relax about aging. What else can you do?
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Normally I sit there in the films really hating watching myself. Loving watching the films, hating watching myself.
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I think every villain basically thinks that he or she is doing something to make his world, or the world in general, a better place.
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France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.
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We can't enchant the world, which makes its own magic; but we can enchant ourselves by paying deep attention
