Gaby Hoffmann Quotes
I started missing acting when I was in school, and I realized after being in the business after however many years that I was really interested in film.
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I didn't know I wanted to act until it was around 21. I had just come back to Los Angeles after two and half years of traveling and working as a dancer and singer and was looking for a new performing art to study. I started taking acting classes and fell in love.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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When the Lebanese Civil War started in 1975, I was 15. I was shipped to boarding school in England and, after that, to UCLA.
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There's precedent for adjudicatory proceedings on technology issues to have massive consumer and business benefits. One of the most famous was the so-called Carterfone decision in 1968.
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It is not weird for a dad to be doing the dishes, the laundry, and taking the kids to school, and read them stories for bed.
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Personally, the first year when I started making enough money just from acting - by that, I mean not doing anything else but acting - was around 2003.
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One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'
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Going to school on a campus where the faculty overwhelmingly disagrees with you, and where the student body overwhelmingly disagrees with you, is challenging. If you go in without a firm foundation, it can undermine what you believe.
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I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.
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The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.
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I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.
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When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.
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Business is tough; you need tough guys.
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But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it.
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I'm kind of obsessed with wedges, but I go to a regular high school, so I'm not going to be wearing Vera Wang there.
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I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.
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I thought a company that provides mutual-fund information could be a great business, because you could construct an effective moat by building large financial databases and customer lists and a strong brand name.
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The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
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I am grateful that my one talent, flying, was useful to my country.
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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.
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I started missing acting when I was in school, and I realized after being in the business after however many years that I was really interested in film.
