Gaby Hoffmann Quotes
I'm interested in people. I'm curious about people, and of course we're curious about people whose work we respond to. So I'm not saying that I don't understand fascination with other people. But as it's dealt with in this American, modern-day culture, I find it not just boring but actually sort of destructive, really.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.
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I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
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From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
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Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet. Two-thirds of it is covered with oceans that are still mysterious places.
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Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
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You'd believe that a patient with hypertension, if you know you have hypertension or diabetes, you would take your drug every day. The compliance rate is more like 30% or 40%. Which means that 60% of patients don't take their drugs, and they actually go into these crises, end up in the hospital.
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The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
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I got in a really bad accident in a Toyota vehicle, but I feel like the safety of the vehicle and God really saved my life.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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I cannot remember a time when the question of why people behave as they do was not intensely interesting to me. The desire to understand was very important. When I was young, I was aware of the fact that much of the time, the reasons a person gave for his actions were not the actual reasons.
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My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
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Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
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People perceive opera and classical as elitist - I disagree. I've always tried to mix the two, make it more accessible.
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I'm a social justice supporter, but there is no social justice on a dead planet.
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You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.
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I'm so used to being within 10 minutes of my family.
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The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare.
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I'm interested in people. I'm curious about people, and of course we're curious about people whose work we respond to. So I'm not saying that I don't understand fascination with other people. But as it's dealt with in this American, modern-day culture, I find it not just boring but actually sort of destructive, really.
