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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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 finished my high school. I think an educate is very, very important.
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I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.
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There is an epidemic right now of girls dumbing themselves down... in middle school because they think it makes them attractive.
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And, you know, when you are a kid, everybody wants to be an actor. I think that everybody wants to be in show business, frankly.
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And peradventure we have more cause to thank Him for our loss than for our winning; for His wisdom better seeth what is good for us than we do ourselves.
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Everyone - male and female - is biased. But no one wants to admit it, so our brains search for examples that disprove the accusation.
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I don't listen to my own music, so to me, it's awesome that people really like it. I was afraid that it wouldn't connect with everyone. I'm more appreciative than anything.
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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.
