Diane Ackerman Quotes
A self is a frightening thing to waste, it's the lens through which one's whole life is viewed, and few people are willing to part with it, in death, or even imaginatively, in art.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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It excites me to go to a movie and be reminded that I'm human, and I'm filled with opposites, and I'm built with flaws. Part of growth and healing is recognizing that.
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I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the '70s.
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Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.
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This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.
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It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.
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I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
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I've always been a Nike person.
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I think the concept of polo that people had in the 1920s and the 1930s was much more accurate, when going to a polo match was seen as a great day out and great fun on a more popular level.
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I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.
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As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.
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He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
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Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.
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You have to enjoy yourself when you go to the movies. People don't want to spend their hard earned money to simply go see a history lesson.
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I'm lucky I live near Whole Foods... so if I'm hungry, I can walk in there and grab something yummy... already made... or make it myself. I love to cook. I make a killer marinara sauce.
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I was a crazy Pee-wee Herman fan when I was in my early teens. Before he had the kids' TV show, he had a nightclub show in L.A., and I had gotten a VHS copy of it. It was a kids' show, but onstage in a bar, so it's sort of poking fun at the kids' show. And I was obsessed with that, and then 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure.'
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What we don't let out traps us. We think, No one else feels this way, I must be crazy. So we don't say anything. And we become enveloped by a deep loneliness, not knowing where our feelings come from or what to do with them. Why do I feel this way?
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I remember secretly going off and crying. All of a sudden I'm being blocked and have to be intimate in a scene, and I'm going, 'I can't even look people in the eye very well. How am I ever going to do this?'
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Doubt has purpose sometimes. If we don't think our work is good enough, we strive to do better and be better. Which then makes us better because practice does just that.
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If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.
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A self is a frightening thing to waste, it's the lens through which one's whole life is viewed, and few people are willing to part with it, in death, or even imaginatively, in art.
