Gaby Hoffmann Quotes
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I'm not religious. I was as a child, and like lots of people, I suppose, rapidly became very disillusioned with the whole thing. I also feel that organised religion has caused far more problems than it has solved.
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People always ask me about 'Girls' with this kind of hesitation. What do I think of it? I love it. It's awesome. I get a lot of Where do you come down on this? I come down on the side of 'Yay, Lena Dunham. Congratulations. I'm jealous.' She's doing something so fantastic. Maybe it's not for everybody, but it certainly is for me.
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For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral, most of them. We get stuck when we insist that God be both good and all-powerful.
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I adored my mom. I thought she was the best. I loved her very much.
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I feel very German - and who can make himself a judge over what is German and what is not - in my ideas and the ideas of my spiritual brothers of German origin.
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I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe.
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Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
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Texas is a pretty free state.
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So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
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For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.
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I had trouble with my temper all the way through the minor leagues.
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Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
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The worst is when I know I'm going to have to cry in a scene.
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I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.
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People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.
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I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13.
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Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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I had so many faux-parents.
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I was fascinated by fairies when I was growing up, and I wanted to see one dreadfully.
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In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we 'battle' cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation. If we are fortunate, we 'beat' the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having 'succumbed after a long battle.'
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Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
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Sometimes I read a really good script, and I just know that it's not a good fit.
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I'm normally the least busy person I know.
