Gaby Hoffmann Quotes
I wanted to live in the suburbs and have a white picket fence and my own bedroom. And a staircase - I thought having a staircase meant that you were a normal family. I thought somehow if you could transplant us to the suburbs, we would become a normal family. But in retrospect, I'm so grateful I grew up in the Chelsea.
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My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.
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Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.
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The universal practice of closing the eyes of the dead may be thought to have originated in the desire that he might be prevented from seeing his way.
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I thought I knew everything when I came to Rome, but I soon found I had everything to learn.
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Most people believe that the Creator of the universe wrote (or dictated) one of their books. Unfortunately, there are many books that pretend to divine authorship, and each makes incompatible claims about how we all must live.
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You see bands putting ads in the paper: 'drummer wanted'. I could never be in a set-up like that.
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Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
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Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.
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I came from two harsh dictatorships, Nazi and Stalinist. I never thought of becoming a writer as such, yet in a lucid moment, I recognised what I had to do.
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I have to give importance to my personal life, my family, parents, and sisters. I hope I can strike the right balance.
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I've always thought George Carlin was brilliant.
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I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.
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I'll never retire. I'm just using up somebody else's oxygen if I retire.
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It's nice to stay up nights worrying about the material, and not about the investors who gave you $10 million to do your musical.
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The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.
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I thought Twitter was a joke. I really thought it was a gag. I thought it was like National Lampoon or the Onion.
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When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories.
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I used to play football at school, and I enjoyed really physical sports, but I now try to avoid any sports that might build up different muscles. That might have a negative impact on my archery.
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I've been asked over the years to compile a list of desert-island discs. I couldn't do that. If I was trapped on a desert island, I don't think I'd want 10 songs to bring with me.
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For nearly two years, I was flying above the planet with my camera. I knew straight away that this was something important to do, just at this moment, a portrait of the planet for the millennium year. I worked in 80 countries, fighting for money all the time.
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R&B needs to see a new light. It doesn't have to be pigeonholed.
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By comparing what we know today with what the ancients appear to have known we can guess at the kinds of wine they drank.
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I think this notion that it's the population of the U.S. against the big companies is just wrong.
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I wanted to live in the suburbs and have a white picket fence and my own bedroom. And a staircase - I thought having a staircase meant that you were a normal family. I thought somehow if you could transplant us to the suburbs, we would become a normal family. But in retrospect, I'm so grateful I grew up in the Chelsea.
