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Diane Ackerman Quotes

I like knowing that the further back one traces any lineage, the narrower the path grows, to the haunt of just a few shaggy ancestors, with luck on their side, little gizmos in their cells and a future storied with impulses and choices that will ultimately define them.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Future Path Luck Choices Back Will

When you do an animated movie - at least the ones that I've been a part of - you never see any of the other actors. It's all done separately with headphones in a voice booth.

Voice You Done Never See Headphones

I joined the Royal Shakespeare Co. with no experience whatsoever - I'd never been to a drama school or anything. But I was strong and could lift things, I could move scenery about.

Experience School Strong Scenery

All those men have their price.

Men Price Those

I get about 25 letters a month, and I answer every one of them.

Mary Ann Mobley

Letters Month Answer Get Every Them

There is more to the game than hitting it far. There are ways to make birdies other than hitting 350-yard drives. I pride myself on a good short game; I work very hard at it.

Work Good Myself Game Pride Short

I have always been interested in garbage: What it says about us. What in there embarrasses us, and what we can't bear to part with. Where it goes and how much of it there is. How it endures. What it might be like to work with it every day.

Work Day Every Day Bear Garbage Us

Journalism is a Darwinian process.

Process Journalism Darwinian

There had to be a market in order for you to be successful in a business. The market had to need your business, or the product of it.

Business You Product Need Successful

'Movie 43' is about the hardest R Rated comedy ever.

Comedy Hardest Movie About Ever

I really loved Twin Peaks. When I saw the two-hour pilot, they screened it in the big theatre. I said, I don't know what is going to happen. I'm in this and I don't understand it. This is never going to sell. Who's going to watch this thing?

Theatre Loved Know Said Understand

Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence.

Management Engineering Tools Software

It's a very sad thing to do, to divorce.

Sad Divorce Very Thing Sad Thing

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