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Diane Ackerman Quotes

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life End My Life Find Want Lived

Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.

Power Revenge Lust Defeat Glory Out

You want to go into scenes thinking not that you're the good guy or the bad guy, but that you've got a job to do. And I'm not talking about as an actor; I'm talking about as the character.

Good Character Job Thinking Talking

Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem.

Robert Smithson

Mistakes Problem More Mean Artists

When I'm painting and in the zone, it's difficult for me to stop. It can take me half a day to get into that space, and once I do, I only talk to a certain few people who won't disrupt it. Home to sleep and back at it, nothing else outside of getting food. Everything else is an annoyance getting in my way.

Home Food Day Sleep Space People

I see some recurring themes: things that feel threaded together, some symbolic references, and songs about some of the big questions, like death. There are a lot of references to weather, too!

Together Death Weather Questions See

I spent a long time away from my parents when I was younger. I would go hunting and fishing with my uncle, and we would go for weeks at a time. I also spent a lot of time in Texas with my grandparents.

Time Fishing Parents Texas Uncle Go

I have a good eye for talent, and my talent performs the best.

Good Best Talent Eye Performs

Ideally I'd like to be working steadily as an actor: movies, a TV series, that sort of thing. I've been through a few different TV development cycles, and they didn't work out. When the time and project are right, it'll come together. Like I tell a lot of guys, it's not a race; there's no finish line.

Work Time Together Movies Actor

I listen to music deeply and seriously for at least an hour or two a day.

Music Day Seriously Listen Two Hour

Really showing love requires more than just words.

Love Words More Just Than Really

In the back of my mind. I always knew WWE was where I should be and where I would end up. Or where I could end up. Where I deep-down wanted to end up.

Mind End Back Always Up Where

Just as someone who's been interested in radio and programming for so long, I can usually tell when an interviewer is doing a segment just to fill a programming slot. They ask questions, but they don't care about the answers.

Care Someone Questions Doing Long

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