Diane Ackerman Quotes
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You always have to avoid working for the sake of putting yourself out there.
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Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.
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I have never pressurized a producer to do me any favor.
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A man in debt is so far a slave.
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If I see a fashion show with literal influences, it doesn't make me think any more. It doesn't make me dream.
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I love writing. It makes me so happy.
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Some people are just not going to like me and they're not going to like my work. But that doesn't mean I'm a bad person.
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The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.
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There was even a recurrent idea in America about an education that would leave out history and the past, that should be a sort of equipment for aerial adventure, weighed down by none of the stowaways of inheritance or tradition.
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You never want to be completely alone at what you do. Competition is good for everyone.
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In home life contentment is an essential to daily comfort. One discontented person in the house creates an atmosphere fatal to tranquillity.
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Write a list of ways that you have benefited from being married to your spouse. Then write a list of your spouse's positive patterns and qualities. Keep adding to the lists and reread them frequently.
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Where I grew up, acting wasn't really accessible. I was just playing sports. But, I did watch a lot of TV. I watched a lot of Clint Eastwood movies on TV and had this fantasy of being like him when I grew up.
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Humans struggle to remain attuned to one another - they want to turn away because of fear, or ambition, or boredom, or some lure of the ego. It's difficult. It requires radical vulnerability, radical risk.
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I never substitute just to substitute. I play my regulars. The only way a guy gets off the floor is if he dies.
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I am an investigator by inclination. I feel a great thirst for knowledge.
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A human moment is a term I invented to distinguish in-person communication from electronic. Human moments are exponentially more powerful than electronic ones. I mean face-to-face, in-person contact and communication. I have identified several modern paradoxes and the first is that, for various reasons, we have grown electronically superconnected but we have simultaneously grown emotionally disconnected from each other.
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He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself, for every man hath need to be forgiven.
