Gaby Hoffmann Quotes
As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.
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It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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Beneficial in theory, so-called free trade agreements far too often have been detrimental to the United States economy and the manufacturing sector that forms its central pillar.
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I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.
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I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
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I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful.
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I'm just going out there and doing exactly what I'm coached and doing exactly what I'm supposed to do and just trying to help this team win.
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I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements.
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So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.
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My entire life has been spent thinking about this game. That's pretty narrow... I don't view myself as a person who's well-versed in very many subjects. I'm not proud of that.
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Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.
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Low interest rates benefit individuals or investors who own or want to buy assets; in that regard, they disproportionately benefit wealthier Americans.
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The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the same time harness it as a good story.
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Light and lust are deadly enemies.
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As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.
