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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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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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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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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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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Let me put it this way. There is more to acting than just acting like somebody. I like to act in such a way that other people get some notion of what it's like to be somebody.
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I think everybody has different priorities in their life. People live their lives differently. People become famous through all sorts of different reasons... some of it through art and some of it through just wanting to be famous. And I think how that all starts tends to reflect how you live your life daily.
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I grew up in Hong Kong, and London used to seem very gray: the sky was gray, the buildings were gray, the food was incredibly gray - the food had, like, new kinds of grayness specially invented for it.
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You step in with the Seth Rogens of the world, you better have some jokes.
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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.
