Gaby Hoffmann Quotes
Here in America, just as we see such incredible progress happening in one state, we see another state passing absolutely disgusting and oppressive laws against the rights of all sorts of people - transgender people, gay people, women.
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Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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For me, I love California. I feel like it's my second home in that I moved out by choice at eighteen. It gave me opportunities that I didn't have anywhere else.
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I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.
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I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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Some children are tackling tough times without the support that can help them because the adults in their life are scared to ask.
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I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history is supposed to know.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
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From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.
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By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
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I never meant to be a full-time poet: I started out as a gardener, an ideal job for a poet because your head is left free.
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I mean, at the end of the day, what the hell does it matter who I end up with if it can't be you?
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The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.
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The lover's pleasure is in the pleasure of the beloved. The lover is satisfied when the beloved is fed. The lover is vain when the beloved is adorned.
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What really is nasty is showing your back to the Puerto Rican people.
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Here in America, just as we see such incredible progress happening in one state, we see another state passing absolutely disgusting and oppressive laws against the rights of all sorts of people - transgender people, gay people, women.
