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I don't make movies thinking: 'Oh, this is going to be a huge box-office hit.'


Diane Kruger

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DIANE ACKERMAN Who you are isn't tied solely to what you say, even though it may feel that way to you now.
DIANE ACKERMAN In some instances, alimony has become akin to a social-welfare program provided by working women to ...
DIANE GARNICK Chemotherapy is such a hard, hard kiss. Anything we can do to alleviate its side effects should be i...
DIANE LADD I'm always interested in looking - historically - at how theater can animate history and how all...
DIANE PAULUS We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different pl...
DIANE ACKERMAN Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experien...
DIANE KEATON Neither James Madison, for whom this lecture is named, nor any of the other Framers of the Constitut...
DIANE WOOD Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful.
DIANE ACKERMAN All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail u...
DIANE ACKERMAN We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutri...
DIANE ACKERMAN I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about ...
DIANE ARBUS All the lessons are in nature. You look at the way rocks are formed - the wind and the water hitting...
DIANE LANE As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, wor...
DIANE ACKERMAN Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to acce...
DIANE SAWYER I became pregnant by my first love at 17 and did what my parents thought was the right thing. I marr...
DIANE HENDRICKS Studies show that the IQ range of most creative people is surprisingly narrow, around 120 to 130. Hi...
DIANE ACKERMAN Because IQ tests favor memory skills and logic, overlooking artistic creativity, insight, resiliency...
DIANE ACKERMAN