Gaby Hoffmann Quotes
The early part of my career was the 1990s, and I was living in New York working as an actor. It was the world I was in. A lot of companies had a great deal of money.
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The single most powerful element of youth is our inability to know what's impossible.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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I was vegetarian for a long time, and in the last four years I started eating chicken and fish. I feel like it really built up my strength a lot.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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Growing up in the public eye was really tough. When you're 14 and your body is changing, your life is changing, and people are watching every step you make, it's really hard to deal with. But I was pretty lucky, people didn't watch me that closely.
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.
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I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.
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I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.
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Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.
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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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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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All diseases run into one, old age.
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I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.
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Do not share your inventions with many; share them only with the few who understand and love the sciences.
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When it comes to working out, I really don't like the gym. I go because I have to, but I'm usually not happy about it. I do what my trainer and coaches tell me to do, but I'm always anxious to get outside.
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I think, on the rap side of life, I've always been inspired by and respected Missy Elliott for a long time. She's funny and created an image for herself that was non-sexualized but was really interesting and really cool and really kind of avant-garde in a lot of ways.
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Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
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Life is Time Management and then you're dead.
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For the first time in his life, he stopped worrying about results, and as a consequence the terms “success” and “failure” had suddenly lost their meaning for him. The true purpose of art was not to create beautiful objects, he discovered. It was a method of understanding, a way of penetrating the world and finding one’s place in it, and whatever aesthetic qualities an individual canvas might have were almost an incidental by-product of the effort to engage oneself in this struggle, to enter into the thick of things.
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I set many of my stories in a gritty "realist" world, but one that is plagued by an overuse of technology, which is akin to the world we find ourselves living in now.
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The early part of my career was the 1990s, and I was living in New York working as an actor. It was the world I was in. A lot of companies had a great deal of money.
