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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May it be long before the people of the United States shall cease to take a deep and pervading interest in the Fourth of July, as the birthday of our national life, or the event which then occurred shall be subordinated to any other of our national history.
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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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People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person.
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Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.
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Keep your eye on the ball.
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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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When the Greatest Hits came out and we did that tour, I just felt I wanted to take a break, totally. Probably because, as well, I was so young when I got famous. I did album, tour, album, tour, album, tour, then I had a public nervous breakdown where I just lost tons of weight.
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If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.
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I have heard of people dying from prostate cancer, and they are the unlucky ones, the people who didn't know they had got it, and it went on the rampage.
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At the end of the day, I think the most conservative principle there is, is giving people a dollar worth of value for a dollar worth of tax paid.
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I've taught in prison; I've counseled people... I've been arrested; I've been to the psychiatrist.
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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.
