Gaby Hoffmann Quotes
My senior thesis was a documentary. By the time I graduated from college, I thought I was going to make films, and my interest in acting was there but kind of confused.
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I guess I found it useful to realise that everything is true at once, you know? You can pull back and say, 'Everything will be fine,' but you can also be in a situation and say, 'Not everything is going to be fine.'
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
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If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child.
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When I'm not touring, I hardly ever leave my house. Part of it is I get to do what I'm most passionate about, which is work on music and make new songs.
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In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
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If you are trying to get people to work on a problem together, it's best if they don't know where you, as the supervisor/manager, stand on the question.
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I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.
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Because I was a diminutive, arty kid, I felt like a misfit in high school - but who doesn't?
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I think 'Tap Dogs' has lasted so long because people have a natural interest in tap dancing. This form of dancing can't be dated, it's such an intriguing form of dance because the feet are also an an instrument.
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Seriously, I do a lot of yoga, so I'm in control of my body.
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I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and ends, the fact that every sound is in danger of disappearing, the fact that everything is connected - the fact that we live and we die.
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Everyone has their opinion, and if no one criticizes, how will I improve my work?
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I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.
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Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.
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I've said some things about other religions that I regret now. I think they were incorrect.
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I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
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There's a lot of things I nerd out over. Quantum Mechanics. I also love Dungeons and Dragons. I want to be an astronaut.
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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
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A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
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I knew very early on that there would be quite a bit of attention: Superman is known all over the place.
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It betrays a poverty of ambition if all you think about is what goods you can buy instead of what good you can do.
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My senior thesis was a documentary. By the time I graduated from college, I thought I was going to make films, and my interest in acting was there but kind of confused.
