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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If you look back on the breakups that you've had, whether it's a long relationship or a one-night stand, it's always awkward.
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I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling.
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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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When I see my picture in the papers, I imagine that people think I'm a lot more serious than I am. They probably think I'm pretty miserable.
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As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions.
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Poetry can't cure cancer, but it can save your life until you die.
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The choreographer cannot deliberately make a ballet to appeal to an audience, he has to start from personal inspirations. He has to trust the ballet, to let it stand on its own strengths or fall on its weaknesses. If it reaches the audience, then he is lucky that round!
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One of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves.
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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.
