All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won’t be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story.


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Two lousy choices is no better than seven lousy choices.
DIANE ARCHER
The biggest problem for most people is affording the health care they need, even with Medicare. Peop...
DIANE ARCHER
The biggest problem for most people is affording the health care they need, even with Medicare, ... ...
DIANE ARCHER
The first thing people need to know is that they do not have to make any changes if they are happy w...
DIANE ARCHER
We hear every kind of story.
DIANE ARCHER
[Yet many people have found the book difficult to understand.] We're hearing from a lot of people wh...
DIANE ARCHER
Shrove Tuesday marks the beginning of the Lenten journey in a celebratory way. We're on this 40-day ...
DIANE ARCHER
Lent is a time of prayer, but not for gloomy faces. Some people choose to give things up, but that's...
DIANE ARCHER
We definitely tell them it's an option, and it can be a lower-cost option than Part D.
DIANE ARCHER
[Some callers] aren't paying their electric (bill) in order to get their medicine, ... aren't gettin...
DIANE ARCHER
Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
DIANE ARBUS
You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.
DIANE ARBUS
The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.
DIANE ARBUS
The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.
DIANE ARBUS
These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes.
DIANE ARBUS
It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the Fall, Adam and Eve had begged the Lor...
DIANE ARBUS
What moves me about...what's called technique...is that it comes from some mysterious deep place. I ...
DIANE ARBUS
When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you...
DIANE ARBUS
We encourage students to talk to advisers to help them choose a program that is right for them. We h...
DIANE ADAMS
We're pleased to know that at the congressional level they're realizing this is important.
DIANE ADAMS
I didn't even know he was into art. I did a little bit because my parents passed when he was 7 and t...
DIANE ADAMS
I don't want people to miss this wonderful show by these imaginative and talented young artists.
DIANE ADAMS
They both take a playful look at the world.
DIANE ADAMS
The children are enrolled in school and they are now trying to get back to some type of normalcy,
DIANE ADAMS
It's been quite hectic. Through the generosity of local businesses, namely Wal-Mart, Kentucky Fried ...
DIANE ADAMS
It's absolutely devastating, ... It's one
thing to see it on TV, and it's another to talk to a...
DIANE ADAMS
It's absolutely devastating, ... It's one thing to see it on TV, and it's another to talk to a mom ...
DIANE ADAMS
He's smart. But it's like a learning disability. If you're talking to him straight on, you either ha...
DIANE ADAMS
Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August i...
DIANE ACKERMAN
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet con...
DIANE ACKERMAN
Success produces success, just as money produces money
DIANE ACKERMAN
Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight
DIANE ACKERMAN
Apes do it. Scorpions do it. Fireflies do it,
DIANE ACKERMAN
These will be a great help in shaping the budget measures provide real insights into the hopes and c...
DIANE ABLONCZY
Obviously I?m disappointed. But you don?t always get everything that you want.
DIANE ABLONCZY
Of course I was disappointed. My expectation was to play a more senior role, but this is politics. Y...
DIANE ABLONCZY
I expect him to be straightforward. We won't get a dizzying round of rhetoric. He will say what he m...
DIANE ABLONCZY
My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable.
DIANE ABBOTT
You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.
DIANE ABBOTT
This is a historically significant victory for women worldwide but for Jamaicans in particular. Port...
DIANE ABBOTT
She has proven herself to be a likable and strong-willed woman. I am sure she will prove herself ver...
DIANE ABBOTT
In my 26 years I haven't run into a baby who was rolled over on in bed, or who suffocated next to mo...
DIANE ABBOTT
because that was the only way they felt they could survive.
DIANE ABBOTT
Whenever I felt like slitting my wrists I used to like listening to depressed singers from the 1970s...
DIANE ABBOTT
Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched ...
DIANE ABBOTT
My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the...
DIANE ABBOTT