Gaby Hoffmann Quotes
I think that every young person is a little mentally ill, you know? If we're not totally shutting down, we're all a little bit mentally ill in our twenties and maybe into our early thirties.
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All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.
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It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.
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It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.
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Drawing is not only a way to come up with pictures: drawing is a way to educate your eye to understand visual information, organizing it into a more hierarchical way, a more economical way. When you see something, if you draw often and frequently, you examine a room very differently.
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My lesson from history is that if there is a strong moderate centrist party which can lead the country, there is no room for extremists from the right or left.
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I am getting to that age where I am too old to play the boy next door and too young to play Uncle Fester.
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The first 'Monsters, Inc.' represents starting at Pixar for me, I have a special place in my heart for it. So to be able to tell a story with those ideas is an honor.
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I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.
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Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.
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I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
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I am happy with my form; I just need to score a couple of goals. I want the ball. I want to create something.
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In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.
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The voice doesn't take a lot of effort now, but in the beginning it was hard to try to find a voice. The one I settled on was just easier to do for a half-hour.
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When France was the only reference for chefs to learn, you could go everywhere in the world, and they would copy dishes directly because they didn't have much expanded imagination or technique or knowledge.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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Now, whenever I need to go online, I confine myself to a tight circle: Gmail, MLB.com, NYTimes.com, Slate and maybe Facebook.
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Devotion, as it relates to the title of my memoir, means fidelity - as in fidelity to a person or a practice. I think it's certainly possible to feel devotion without having faith, at least in the religious sense of the word.
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I sort of think of myself as part priest, part clown.
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The only difference between a good writer who publishes a book and a good writer who doesn't is that the writer who publishes actually finished her book.
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If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.
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I've never been a model, I was an actress for like a minute, but I've always been a writer. That's where I'm going to stay.
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I think that every young person is a little mentally ill, you know? If we're not totally shutting down, we're all a little bit mentally ill in our twenties and maybe into our early thirties.
