In the land of Ingary where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of the three. Everyone knows you are the one who will fail first, and worst, if the three of you set out to seek your fortunes.


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All these old images of me floating across the screen, the terrible chasm of what you were and what ...
DIANA RIGG
It would be nice if they didn't make me get up at 5 A.M. for a 12-hour day. My caravan is never ...
DIANA RIGG
Three of the principal cast members of 'Outlander' have come out publically for 'Yes'...
DIANA GABALDON
I am very proud of my mom and consider her the most courageous woman I know. With perseverance, sacr...
DIANA LOPEZ
Every time I'd read about the stone circles, it would describe how they worked as an astronomica...
DIANA GABALDON
The highs were high, the awe, I'm not a religious person, but I'll tell you, to be in the az...
DIANA NYAD
I want an autobiography without revealing any personal information.
DIANA ROSS
I find the whole feminist thing very boring. They are so much on the defensive that they dare not lo...
DIANA RIGG
From the late '70s to the early '90s, I wrote anything anybody would pay me for. This ranged...
DIANA GABALDON
I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.
DIANA VREELAND
I'd love to play a femme fatale in a film noir. I'm thinking of one of those roles that Laur...
DIANA QUICK
You hand the baton on, and that's why roles like 'Medea' resonate for years and years, a...
DIANA RIGG
We depend on the critics to give us a glimpse of what happened. Bernard Shaw championed Ibsen, who g...
DIANA RIGG
My parents sacrificed so much for all of us. It makes me want to give back to them by being the best...
DIANA LOPEZ
I love music so much I love what I do. I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because ...
DIANA KRALL
Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God.
DIANA ROBINSON
It's worth noting that at the time of the American Revolution, no sane person would have given t...
DIANA GABALDON
It is pretty amazing. My parents, who came from Nicaragua to the U.S. - who would have thought that ...
DIANA LOPEZ
So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how th...
DIANA KRALL
Futility. Uselessness. Bloody entrophy. Death matters, at least sometimes.
DIANA GABALDON
Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.
DIANA VREELAND
There are lines of geomagnetic force running through the Earth's crust, and most of the time, th...
DIANA GABALDON
A romance is a courtship story. In the 19th century, the definition of the romance genre was an esca...
DIANA GALBADON
I hope there's a tinge of disgrace about me. Hopefully, there's one good scandal left in me ...
DIANA RIGG
I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to ...
PRINCESS DIANA
I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's d...
PRINCESS DIANA
It takes a long time to get to be a diva. I mean, you gotta work at it.
DIANA ROSS
I don't mind getting old except for the pain. I have two new knees, so going downstairs is not p...
DIANA RIGG
I walked across Tuscany from Siena to Rome, which was a lovely way to see the landscape. It was sunn...
DIANA QUICK
Sleep is death without the consequence.
DIANA QUINN
Age is an ugly thing, and it goes on getting worse. -Diana Cooper.
DIANA COOPER
It's an opportunity for citizens who care about issues to communicate with lawmakers about what's ha...
DIANA AVIV
It's extremely important for charitable organizations to make sure lawmakers have all the facts befo...
DIANA AVIV
In the First Amendment, people have the right to petition the government. That is a constitutional r...
DIANA AVIV
With government funding being cut back, charities are being hard-pressed to turn away money that's l...
DIANA AVIV
These recommendations are another part of the charitable sector?s commitment to come together and en...
DIANA AVIV
Our past research shows that adults are twice as likely to volunteer if they began participating whe...
DIANA AVIV