Diane Roberts quote: "I started writing about the Florida Legislature, and there are two possibilities for response to the Florida Legislature. One is weeping uncontrollably and jumping off a tall building, and the other is to laugh. So you might as well laugh."

This is a contradiction in terms, of course.
DIANE ROBERTS

All of her routines start at a 10.0. We worked long and hard during the summer to develop that.
DIANE ROBERTS

When she performs ... all eyes are on her. She has these signature skills that she does on the floor...
DIANE ROBERTS

She could do things on beam that I had no name for. As a third-year coach, I had visions of grandeur...
DIANE ROBERTS

When you don't know the story of a place, it makes it much easier to destroy it. And so much of Flor...
DIANE ROBERTS

That's not so unusual in North Florida and West Florida. It didn't used to be unusual. It was comple...
DIANE ROBERTS

I don't lecture any more; it bores people rigid. I read and I talk. After you teach college for a wh...
DIANE ROBERTS

When she has a good day, the Pirates have a good day.
DIANE ROBERTS

Winning feels great. Don't ask me the last time we won because I can't remember.
DIANE ROBERTS

Follow what you are genuinely passionate about and let that guide you to your destination.
DIANE SAWYER

Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.
DIANE ARBUS

I don't think you can have pain and soul-searching doing the right thing for your child.
DIANE ABBOTT

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.
DIANE ACKERMAN

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a susta...
DIANE ARBUS

A lot of people give up, but you can't stop me. If you close the door, I'll just jump out th...
DIANE WARREN

I don't know about style. I know about my personal style.
DIANE KRUGER

Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains u...
DIANE ACKERMAN

I know what it's like to have a broken heart. I know what it's like to feel pain: When my so...
DIANE WARREN

I have a good imagination. Look, I know what it feels like to have a broken heart. I know what it fe...
DIANE WARREN

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

Whenever I tour my district and I ask small businesspeople 'what can I do to help?,' they te...
DIANE BLACK

I find that classical music helps put me in a place that is very calming and allows me to express em...
DIANE KRUGER

In addition to being a nurse, I'm also a small business owner and I taught at a local community ...
DIANE BLACK

I'm certainly not opposed to digital technology, whose graces I daily enjoy and rely on in so ma...
DIANE ACKERMAN

When fast food is not a treat but a dietary staple, the children surf the internet all day in dark c...
DIANE ABBOTT

PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that cele...
DIANE WAKOSKI

Just as our ancient ancestors drew animals on cave walls and carved animals from wood and bone, we d...
DIANE ACKERMAN

Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergro...
DIANE ACKERMAN

The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss.
DIANE RAVITCH

Playing dead is difficult with a full bladder.
DIANE LANE

All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind...
DIANE SETTERFIELD

Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believ...
DIANE DUANE

With good reason, love's messengers, Eros and Kama, are armed with bows and long-distance arrows. No...
DIANE WOLKSTEIN

Though most of us don't hunt, our eyes are still the great monopolists of our senses. To taste or to...
DIANE ACKERMAN

There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of...
DIANE ACKERMAN

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet con...
DIANE ACKERMAN

My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.
DIANE ARBUS

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
DIANE ARBUS

If I were just curious, it would be very hard to say to someone, I want to come to your house and ha...
DIANE ARBUS

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do -- that was one of my favorite things about...
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

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in bet...
DIANE ACKERMAN

There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands th...
DIANE ARBUS

After all, coffee is bitter, a flavor from the forbidden and dangerous realm.
DIANE ACKERMAN

A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together...
DIANE ACKERMAN

I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to ha...
DIANE ACKERMAN

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
DIANE ACKERMAN

Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and t...
DIANE ARBUS

What do I want now? I want to be treated with the respect I deserve in the current VA system and not...
DIANE CHAMBERLAIN

It's in the preparation -- in those dreary pedestrian virtues they taught you in seventh grade and ...
DIANE SAWYER

The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss.
DIANE RAVITCH

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 h...
DIANE ACKERMAN

The devil is and always has been a gentleman.
DIANE LAVEY

People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong.
DIANE SAWYER

Caregiver: that word should weigh more than others on a page, sag it down a bit and wrinkle it, beca...
DIANE ACKERMAN

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejo...
DIANE ACKERMAN

But pecuniary interest is clearly not in your nature. How quaint. I have written about people who do...
DIANE SETTERFIELD

It's essential to tailor rehab to what impassions someone. The brain gradually learns by riveting it...
DIANE ACKERMAN

The knowing, I told myself, is only a vapor of the mind, and yet it can wreck havok with one's sanit...
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

I think they went with the idea that people know the story pretty much- knowing that he's going ...
DIANE KRUGER

I like the idea of accessibility, coming from a lower-middle-class background myself, I feel like be...
DIANE KRUGER

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

I grew up loving actresses or actors who were very classy but who seemed a little bit mysterious bec...
DIANE KRUGER

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

I don't want to let my life as a woman pass me by. There's a time to work, there's a tim...
DIANE KRUGER

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

It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scotti...
DIANE KRUGER

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

I think Charlize Theron is just as good when she is looking really pretty in a movie as when she gai...
DIANE KRUGER

I really feel like the first day I went to drama school and I went up on stage, that I found my voca...
DIANE KRUGER

It's maybe hard to believe, but as a kid I really had a lot of self-doubts. My father was very i...
DIANE KRUGER

With just about every script, in almost every corner of the set, I was faced with the truth: This wa...
DIANE GUERRERO

Yeah, I know, the Mars thing. I've been meaning to talk to you about that. When did you get t...
DIANE DUANE

My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of...
DIANE ABBOTT

In Elizabethan England or classical Athens... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society...
DIANE PAULUS

I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of s...
DIANE ARBUS

With modeling, you pose. You want to look your best all the time. With acting, you have to be aware ...
DIANE KRUGER

I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.
DIANE LANE

I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards t...
DIANE WAKOSKI

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with ...
DIANE ARBUS

Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as cravi...
DIANE ARBUS

Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empath...
DIANE ACKERMAN

I'm a girl, but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate greatness and the struggle of sport...
DIANE LANE

You have to be creative. It's the basics. You can't be Picasso unless you know how to draw a...
DIANE ENGLISH

Accounting does not make corporate earnings or balance sheets more volatile. Accounting just increas...
DIANE GARNICK

What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion ...
DIANE ACKERMAN

I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional s...
DIANE KRUGER

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet con...
DIANE ACKERMAN

For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see ...
DIANE ACKERMAN

I would do anything for a part, nearly anything. Being in movies doesn't mean being pretty.
DIANE KRUGER

My old boyfriend, Warren Beatty, used to say I was a late developer,' she reflects. 'He was ...
DIANE KEATON

Every actor you learn from, take something from everyone - big actor or not. Whether they're big...
DIANE KRUGER

I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time ...
DIANE SETTERFIELD

It's always refreshing to step into another time.
DIANE LANE

...she knew, with all her heart that running away from the country’s top relationship coach was as...
DIANE HALL

Whose are all these ghosts?” she said, smiling at a flustered-looking Geraldine.
“Oh,” s...
DIANE HALL

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the m...
DIANE ARBUS

The abuse of detainees in U.S. custody has severely undermined our Nation's position in the worl...
DIANE WATSON

There is no more reason to think that they expected the world to remain static than there is to thin...
DIANE WOOD

I do not read newspapers. I do not watch television. I am not interested in current events, although...
DIANE WAKOSKI

I'm European, small, dainty - but I actually consider myself more of a tomboy.
DIANE KRUGER

Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing...
DIANE ABBOTT

I play a curator, the most American part you can think of. My work is to protect the Declaration of ...
DIANE KRUGER

I don't really know how to relate to a long-term day-in day-out kind of comfortable relationship...
DIANE LANE

The sensory misers will inherit the earth, but first they will make it not worth living on. When you...
DIANE ACKERMAN

Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about techn...
DIANE SAWYER

Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.
DIANE DUANE

At some point, one asks, "Toward what end is my life lived?" A great freedom comes from being able t...
DIANE ACKERMAN

Part of this new world of completely improvisational terrorism is that there were codes of war that ...
DIANE SAWYER

I'm a hoarder. For me, documentation has always been key, and I've kept everything from my p...
DIANE KEATON

I've always loved scuba diving and the cell-tickling feel of being underwater, though it poses u...
DIANE ACKERMAN

I wanted to be a district attorney and solve hidden problems or maybe even be a leper-colony mission...
DIANE LADD

We cannot ignore the disparity in resources that continue to plague many of our school systems, espe...
DIANE WATSON

We're a depraved civilization. All this technology, all the computer games and the iPhones... no...
DIANE PAULUS

Orlando's a really cool guy. They hired him for 'Lord of the Rings' out of drama school....
DIANE KRUGER

The parallels between 9/11 and Pearl Harbor are striking. In each instance there were warning signs ...
DIANE WATSON

My personality just steps away, and I'm in direct connection when I'm on stage.
DIANE LADD

It is not 'seeing' the light that impacts one's life; it is never 'ceasing' to see the light that im...
DIANE LAHAIE

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

Many young people carrying real or imitation firearms do so in a mistaken attempt to either boost th...
DIANE ABBOTT

Justice deferred is justice denied.
DIANE WATSON

It is time... to end the long-standing and unproductive methodological debate over 'originalism&...
DIANE WOOD

Can anyone picture God telling, taking, or enjoying a good joke? The idea is laughable. The Devil, o...
DIANE LAVEY

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to hav...
DIANE ACKERMAN

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, d...
DIANE ACKERMAN

The person who knows "how" will always have a job. The person who knows "why" will always be his bo...
DIANE RAVITCH

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in be...
DIANE ACKERMAN

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do -- that was one of my favorite things abou...
DIANE ARBUS

Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everythi...
DIANE ACKERMAN

Tranquillity hides in small spaces, and when found needs to be treasured, because you know it's a ph...
DIANE ACKERMAN

Just as big cities can deplete you with their noise and crowds and sheer sensory overload, a hospita...
DIANE ACKERMAN

Disassociating, mindfulness, transcendence-whatever the label-it's a sort of loophole in our contrac...
DIANE ACKERMAN

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

Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and...
DIANE ARBUS

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total...
DIANE ACKERMAN

Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbabl...
DIANE ACKERMAN

Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life.
DIANE WAKOSKI

One of the biggest challenges is for women to find an organization that's willing to accept them...
DIANE GARNICK

For me, the reason why people go to a mountaintop or go to the edge of the ocean is to look at somet...
DIANE PAULUS

My sport is biking. I'm not much of a gym person, but I like being outside - hiking, canoeing, c...
DIANE KRUGER

Whatever the struggle, continue the climb. It may be only one step to the summit.
DIANE WESTLAKE

My favourite thing is to go where I've never been.
DIANE ARBUS

I started writing about the Florida Legislature, and there are two possibilities for response to the Florida Legislature. One is weeping uncontrollably and jumping off a tall building, and the other is to laugh. So you might as well laugh.

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Diane Roberts

I started writing about the Florida Legislature, and there are two possibilities for response to the Florida Legislature. One is weeping uncontrollably and jumping off a tall building, and the other is to laugh. So you might as well laugh.

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