Diane Ackerman Quotes
We ogle plants and animals up close on television, the Internet and in the movies. We may not worship the animals we see, but we still regard them as necessary physical and spiritual companions. Technological nature can't completely satisfy that yearning.
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My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.
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Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you're heartbroken, but tomorrow you'll be in love again.
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I feel like the luckiest person on the planet. 'Tron' was such a departure for me.
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I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'
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Grown-up clothes are more appealing because customers need to be able to project themselves into them.
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I love working back home, but it is a small country, and we do get tired of watching each other.
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Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
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My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted.
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I've been playing American football since I was six years old. I was a captain of my high school team, playing strong safety.
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It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.
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Well, Warren Harding, I have got you the presidency. What are you going to do with it?
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It always feels good to put something you're proud of out in the world.
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I had internal bleeding with blood clots on the brain. I was completely blind and deaf. I had a heart attack and a stroke.
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People are saying, 'Big Data is the new oil.'
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You look at Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Bob Seger. All they ever wanted to do was go out there and entertain, and I'm the same way.
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I'm not a self-promoter. I'm not on TV all the time.
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Better to die, and sleep The never-waking sleep, than linger on And dare to live when the soul's life is gone.
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Don't avoid extremes, and don't choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities - that is the art, the secret of balancing.
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If Shanghai wants to be an international cultural center, they have to do something about that. The reason I left is that I wanted to explore what ballet is all about, and if I had stayed put, that wouldn't have happened.
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I'd spent summers growing up in Mississippi, so I had an idea of what the South is like.
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The Internet is the greatest tool for any artist to have interaction with any audience.
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We ogle plants and animals up close on television, the Internet and in the movies. We may not worship the animals we see, but we still regard them as necessary physical and spiritual companions. Technological nature can't completely satisfy that yearning.
