Gaby Hoffmann Quotes
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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Sometimes people fear the truth. They'd rather not speak to you than know what you really think.
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It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.
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Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for actors of color, namely Asian Americans, opportunities have been and remain substantially limited. One place this is not the case is on 'Hawaii Five-0,' where we have three Asian American series regulars and a landscape rich with diversity.
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As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.
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Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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The way I perceive an album to sound and the way I put out mixtapes are two different energies. There's a different focus; there's a different sound.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
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I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.
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If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to me.
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I thought what would be really just choice for a revamp and a reboot is 'The Greatest American Hero.' I think I'd be just that kind of perfect not prepared for this kind of thing, but thrust into circumstances he's not prepared for... that's another niche of mine. Unpreparedness. Not knowing what to do. I'm good at being that guy.
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This Islam business kidnapped me.
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What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there's still waste in the military budget.
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Remember, things extremely hard to come by are not necessarily good.
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I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.
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You have the freedom to live and let live, to love and let love. Granting yourself that freedom is one of the healthiest, most constructive things you can do for yourself and the people who matter to you.
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There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement.
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Every little thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability to achieve that kind of terrific suspension of disbelief that happens when an audience goes with an actor and character he's playing.
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There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.
