Diane Ackerman Quotes
Love is the most important thing in our lives, a passion for which we would fight or die, and yet we're reluctant to linger over its names. Without a supple vocabulary, we can't even talk or think about it directly.
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I've always said that acting found me. I didn't really find it.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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When I was a kid, I didn't know how I got into acting.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.
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Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
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My dad was in a hospital for months. The doctors told my dad he would never be able to walk again. My dad beat all the odds. He came back and was able to walk and start boxing again. He went to No. 1 in the world at welterweight to fight for the world title. But he never had his chance to fight for a world title.
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I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
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It's always nice to have more than just two hands if you're making cakes.
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Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.
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I grew up watching a lot of French cinema.
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I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.
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I will never have a sip of alcohol and get behind the wheel again. Regardless if I'm 300% sure that I just had a sip and I can drive. It doesn't matter.
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The best and brightest don't go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.
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And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.
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Fear created the first gods in the world.
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I wish I could prove that he hypnotized me... That would give me a reason for doing such a dumb thing.
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What's the message in Metallica? There is no message, but if there was a message, it really should be look within yourself, don't listen to me, don't listen to James, don't listen to anybody, look within yourself for the answers.
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We have to be very careful about what we say out there to the masses in the entertainment industry because people are listening to every word, and they take it to heart.
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I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.
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'Be in' is all about passion. Life is short. There are so many interesting things we can do in our life, and I feel like if someone is just kind of showing up, it's not worth it for them or for us.
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Love is the most important thing in our lives, a passion for which we would fight or die, and yet we're reluctant to linger over its names. Without a supple vocabulary, we can't even talk or think about it directly.
