Gaby Hoffmann Quotes
Anything that needs to be accessed is within me. Even if it's in a circumstance that seems outrageous, I can still just go back to the basic human experience and it's all there.
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I went through a lot in middle school, and you always try so many different looks and try to be so many different people. I finally realized I'm awkward, I'm lanky, and I'm going to embrace it - make fun of myself and just laugh.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
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After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.
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When I pull into a city and I rent a car and it's Nashville, or it's London, or I'm driving in the taxi to the hotel, and on comes one of my songs, it's like, 'Oh my God, they're still playing these songs on the radio.' And you still feel tearful and very grateful that somebody still likes these songs that you made up.
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I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
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You must respect people, and you must respect money. My father said to me: 'When you respect money, money will respect you.'
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Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.
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I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.
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The Tea Party people say they're angry about socialism, but maybe they're really angry about capitalism. If there's a sense of being looked down upon, it's that sense of failure that's built into a system that assures everyone they can make it to the top, but then reserves the top for only a tiny fraction of the strivers.
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
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There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.
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I'm the kind of person that, if someone says, 'Oh yeah, you can't do that,' I want to then go do it.
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It's not how you come out of the starting blocks.
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My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
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There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
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I think the one film that I could watch over and over and over again - and I have - is 'Man on Fire.'
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Anything that needs to be accessed is within me. Even if it's in a circumstance that seems outrageous, I can still just go back to the basic human experience and it's all there.
