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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I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.
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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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There came a time in my life when I doubted the divinity of the Scriptures, and I resolved as a lawyer and a judge I would try the Book as I would try anything in the courtroom, taking evidence for and against. It was a long, serious and profound study and using the same principles of evidence in this religious matter as I always do in secular matters, I have come to the decision that the Bible is a supernatural Book, that it has come from God, and that the only safety for the human race is to follow its teachings.
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I think all negotiations should take place at a round table and everybody should have to rotate counterclockwise once an hour so that even the perception of head of the table, or foot, are ritually obliterated.
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In a language known to us, we have substituted the opacity of the sounds with the transparence of the ideas. But a language we donot know is a closed place in which the one we love can deceive us, making us, locked outside and convulsed in our impotence, incapable of seeing or preventing anything.
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The easier it looks on screen, the more hard work goes into making it so.
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Trust is simply a set of expectations about the present and the future. The key is to ensure that these are chosen and evaluated based upon awareness versus fear.
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Suburbia, to me, was the most fantastical, unusual place. I thought it was Disneyland.
