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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We have ministers who are incapable of doing what has been ordered from above because there is no follow up, because there are no consequences. If you are poor man and you steal, your hand is cut off after three offences. But if you are a rich man, nobody will say anything to you.
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I grew up a chubby girl. I had two brothers. My parents loved us, they just fed us whatever we wanted.
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But I can't listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid, nice things, and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell.
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I just want to live on the road. I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night. If I'm not performing every night, I get totally depressed. I know that sounds really weird, but I hate sitting at home and not having a 1 A.M. performance now. It kills me.
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In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the planet who have voluntarily read all his novels.
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Suburbia, to me, was the most fantastical, unusual place. I thought it was Disneyland.
