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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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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I love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture.
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Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?
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At the end of ancient civilization ontic anxiety is predominant, at the end of the Middle Ages moral anxiety, and at the end of the modern period spiritual anxiety.
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Woodstock happened in August 1969, long before the Internet and mobile phones made it possible to communicate instantly with anyone, anywhere. It was a time when we werent able to witness world events or the horrors of war live on 24-hour news channels.
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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.
