Diane Ackerman Quotes
All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories, emotions and that ultimate souvenir, the self.
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If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
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I'm always looking to do things that are really different from each other.
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I really love Alexa Chung's style. I really think she gets it right all the time. I've never seen a picture of her where I didn't love the outfit.
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It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
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I'm not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They've got to take control; I can't act it out.
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What's the difference between a personality disorder and a personality? You know? That's what I wanna know!
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When I step in the ring, I bring everything I have.
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We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file-sharing networks.
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The economy is much bigger than the market. We will not be able to build a good economy - nor a good society - unless we look at the vast expanse beyond the market.
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Age-class running, as you know, is completely unreliable. It's based on this artificial thing, which is that people who are the same age have the same level of physical maturity. Which just isn't true.
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When my father died, I had a real experience with Christ, a real conversion with Christ and I had it in a Oneness church.
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I considered acting an opportunity to express emotions-and I took advantage of every opportunity l got. It took me a long time to discover that restraint can be admirable. Restraint, however, does not mean lack of emotion. The thing that irks me is lack of emotion trying to pass for restraint. Lack of emotion is pathological; restraint is civilized.
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I think my biggest mistake was deciding not to go to law school directly after I graduated from college.
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I want to make good, fun films, not necessarily experimental ones.
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Steven Spielberg had a tremendous influence on me through his early stuff. 'E.T.', 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' - 'Jaws,' I think, is one of the most beautifully directed films ever.
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I'm from Texas, and Texas has a reputation that far precedes actual Texas, and it is irritating sometimes.
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I tour a lot and interview a lot. I'm on the Internet and doing stuff. I go out and promote. I've got a bass drum and a sandwich sign and a washboard. You just have to shout louder and louder that you're still alive.
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My subject matter was a genuine sort of experience that came out of my life, particularly the American world in which I was privileged to be . . . . I would really think of the bakery counters, of the way the counter was lit, where the pies were placed, but I wanted just a piece of the experience. From when I worked in restaurants . . . [it was] always poetic to me.
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I've got so much in my brain and I want to change the way we think sometimes.
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Are these clues? Which ones are important? Which ones are incidental? Which ones are circumstantial?
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My brain is dull, my sight is foul, I cannot write a verse, or read-- Then, Pallas, take away thine Owl, And let us have a lark instead.
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All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories, emotions and that ultimate souvenir, the self.
