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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I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them.
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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 love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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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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They're great girls. They're very funny, they're very smart, they're fun to be with. They're very lively, as I think people can tell. And you know, they're very confident girls.
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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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We account for one-sixth of the forces of gravity we see in the universe. There is no known objects accounting for most of the effective gravity in the universe. Something is making stuff move that is not anything we have ever touched.
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I'm from South Georgia, so my mom, she always cooked some dang good food when I was growing up.
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Joe Kennedy was a massive figure on all kinds of levels.
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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.
