Gaby Hoffmann Quotes
Suburbia, to me, was the most fantastical, unusual place. I thought it was Disneyland.
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I haven't done Vine in a long time, and when I first started, I just did stuff that I thought was funny.
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There's something that happens with the collection of a large amount of data when it's dumped into an Excel spreadsheet or put into a pie chart. You run the risk of completely missing what it's about.
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I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.
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Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.
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A right balance between music and lyrics is important. Music complements lyrics.
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It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.
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I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
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The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
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If I don't get healthy food, my staff cooks for me.
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My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.
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I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.
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Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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I feel like fashion should not happen in the morning.
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It doesn't matter if people perceive me as being a little strange. I think overall, even when I am on stage, when people see me, I am setting an example.
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The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
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The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count.
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Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.
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There's a joke that, if you can ride through Texas with somebody, which is 700 miles of just straight, flat freeway riding, then you can be friends with them forever.
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People who choose to cut their parents out completely are super brave, but it's complicated and for me, I'd rather give the relationship a little bit of a try, however imperfect it is.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.
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Suburbia, to me, was the most fantastical, unusual place. I thought it was Disneyland.
