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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There's certain things as a songwriter that I don't really care to write about, and there are certain things I won't sing about anymore. There are just so many things that I probably thought was OK for me, or have been in the past, that I would never want my son to think was OK.
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Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.
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My next-door neighbor's two dogs have created more shovel-ready jobs than this current administration.
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I am not proud of the King of Bahrain, in whose name people have been killed.
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The one thing a lifetime in the newspaper business teaches you is pace - you spend all your time trying to make sure that the reader's going to finish what you're writing.
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Suburbia, to me, was the most fantastical, unusual place. I thought it was Disneyland.
