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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Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal. Her giving to man reason and the freedom of the will which depends upon it is clear indication of her purpose. Man accordingly was not to be guided by instinct, not nurtured and instructed with ready-made knowledge; rather, he should bring forth everything out of his own resources.
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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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It doesn't matter what you do, so long as you don't frighten the horses.
