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Diane Ackerman Quotes

I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: October 7, 1948

Topics

Life Want My Own Own Passenger

I'm basically a very happy person and I don't have to be anybody else.

Happy Person Happy Person Anybody

I really believed that if I could play that character, who is grounded in the earth and the history of the United States - not the kind of role I usually play - it would help me change the perception out there and my own perception of what I can accomplish as a performer.

Change Character History Me Help

I don't want to be forty-five and still a freshman.

Want Still Freshman Forty-Five

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.

Art Gift Color White Fools Making

When I was a lieutenant in Special Forces many many years ago, I thought I was getting fat. And I started running, and I started running distance, which I enjoyed.

Stanley A. McChrystal

Thought Fat Distance Special Years

I'm almost exclusively interested in what happens behind closed doors, between people. The removal of their public face.

Steven Shainberg

People Face Doors Almost Happens

I don't know how Coach Saban found me all the way in Hawaii from Alabama.

Me Hawaii Know Way Coach Alabama

Doing the same thing day in, day out. It's just so boring. I like to jump from different things.

Day Doing Jump Boring Same Out

I don't see a difference between the idea of what an actor does and what someone supposes a character actor is, really.

Michael Stuhlbarg

Character Someone Actor See Idea

If it was up to me, it would be nice not ever to get stopped on the street, because we just do music. I didn't do this to become a celebrity.

Lukas Forchhammer

Music Me Be Nice Nice Street Become

I love Yamaha Clavinovas. I have them at home, in the studio and on tour with me. I find them ideal for all sorts of things: silent practice with headphones at home; writing; arranging and... just playing the blues!

Love Home Practice Me Writing Find

As an actor, acting is like playing a sport. You do this thing that's intangible, and while it's happening, it's great. But then when it's done, there's really no tangible product. Someone else is capturing it and turning it into something tangible.

Great Someone You Acting Done Actor

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