Rachel Hoffman Quotes
Grads need to remember that it's [showcases] just a jumping off point for their career, not the defining moment.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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I wish it were not a sin to have liked it so.
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When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.
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In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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You've got to play every game until it's over. Baseball is a funny game, so you never know what's going to happen.
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I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
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I'm 80 years old, and I don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.
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I was probably nine or ten the first time I heard there was no Santa Claus.
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I was surprised, but we didn't really struggle because we moved the ball. It's just that at the end of every drive, we made a physical error, and you really can't battle back from those, especially against a very good defense.
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Obviously, when you finish something like 'White Collar,' there are so many opportunities to just do something similar because people want that kind of thing, and I really have tried to stretch myself out, for better or for worse. I hope that I'm able to get to continue to do that, as an artist, and I'm not the guy who shows up to be charming.
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We have got to cut the spending. We have got to fix Medicare and Social Security. And actually, if we don't cut spending, this country is already broke. We are going off the financial cliff: the big cliff that is going to cause a total economic collapse of America.
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Democracies don't fight each other. Terrorists don't tend to come from places where they feel like they have recourse in a political system.
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Grads need to remember that it's [showcases] just a jumping off point for their career, not the defining moment.
