Gaby Hoffmann Quotes
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I had a world of people who were raising me; it was like a little village.
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The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.
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I actually voted for Nader.
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I don't think it should be allowed for people to start working at a young age and not take the time to just be living as themselves in the real world, especially now in this new age of new media and the obsession with celebrity. I think it's a real crime.
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I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
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I loved being on the set of 'Field of Dreams' because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball.
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There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.
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I always knew when I graduated from high school, I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from... I just wanted to study literature and writing.
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If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.
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I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.'
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I grew up with artists and drag queens. These were just my neighbors and friends and the people who are raising me.
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My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.
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I think that anybody coming out and saying, 'This is who I am, and let me show it to you...' is good for the world.
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Too bad, whenever adults tell kids to enjoy their childhoods, kids are like, 'You don't understand anything,' and everyone is right.
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I was never as famous as all these kids. There was no social media. We weren't celebrity-obsessed as a culture. I feel like these kids are under a crazy microscope; they're basically brands. And they eventually implode and act out. They need a break, and they're not getting one.
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I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
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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.
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I wanted to live in the suburbs and have a white picket fence and my own bedroom. And a staircase - I thought having a staircase meant that you were a normal family. I thought somehow if you could transplant us to the suburbs, we would become a normal family. But in retrospect, I'm so grateful I grew up in the Chelsea.
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I didn't intend to introduce food so early, but she became very interested at about 5 months, and I just gave her whatever sort of nutrient-rich food I had. Her first food was smoked trout.
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The sleeplessness is proven; it eradicates your memory.
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I had a world of people raising me; it was like a little village.
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Suburbia, to me, was the most fantastical, unusual place. I thought it was Disneyland.
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I am paid to dive deeper into my own humanity and do that with other people in collaboration... so that, in and of itself, I just feel like is the greatest privilege in the world.
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My mom could be pretty strict.