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It was a very odd household, because the grandmothers were so different. Both of them had their own pianos. So it would be duelling pianos by grandmothers.


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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 There's obviously been a variety of issues swirling around the banks and the big broker dealers, and...
DIANE GLOSSMAN I spent a lot of time protecting myself. I mean, I've met a lot of extraordinary people over the...
DIANE KEATON I get to go to work and come home with something interesting or enriching or astonishing.
DIANE SAWYER The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder ...
DIANE ACKERMAN My favourite thing is to go where I've never been.
DIANE ARBUS