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 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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When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories.
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Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.
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As an author, you're really grateful for the people who are supporting you, but on some other level, that can be a dangerous echo chamber.
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Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.
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My role as Ewan McGregor's girlfriend in the film 'Incendiary' ended up on the cutting-room floor, but at least I had two brilliant days of acting with Ewan.
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I went to the University of Michigan for one year, and fortunately they had a foreign-film cinema, and I discovered it, and I thought I died and went to heaven.
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My back only bugs me when I sleep wrong. I feel my knee more than anything, the left one. It's arthritic.
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I will form good habits and become their slave. And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one which will bring me closer to success.
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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.
