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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It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
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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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Just because you did something once doesn't mean anything. You have to be willing in your heart to begin again every day. The minute I'm not willing to do that, I will retire.
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Actors and writers need to come back to the theater because it's a place where you can learn. You have to pay your dues, and people who haven't paid their dues in the theater, I think, have a hard time creating a whole career.
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What people are going to think of me, I can't really change that.
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True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.
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As we get older, it's important for us to help hand back some of what we've gained as we've grown older. It should be one of your responsibilities - it's almost like being a mentor.
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We have a brain for one reason and one reason only - and that's to produce adaptable and complex movements.
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Anything that doesn't make sense, I don't want to give too much of my brain to.
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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.
