Eva Hoffman Quotes

It may be that just as tonality recurs in music and realism in painting, so the idea of liberalism recurs in politics-though each time in a different vein.

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• I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen.

  

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• I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.

  

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• All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.

  

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• The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.

  

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• I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.

  

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• The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.

  

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• I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.

  

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• I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.

  

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• I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.

  

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• It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.

  

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• Whenever I see the Hong Kong flag is flying in the sky, not because of anybody else, because of my efforts, I think it's the most proud time of my life.

  

  Yu Chui Yee
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• Now I love hoops. I'm a diehard UCLA fan, have been since my freshman year. But basketball is the '1812 Overture.' Pomp and circumstance, fireworks and cannons, lots and lots of fun, and in the end, still Tchaikovsky.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
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• Love is a credulous thing.

  

  Ovid
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• Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

  

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• Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably reject your observation. Why? Because most people go through life as cunning actors with a permanent horror of getting found out.

  

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• I drive a big Dodge truck. I drive American cars.

  

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• My mom always said that if the Protestants catch a Catholic in their church, they feed them to the Jews.

  

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• I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.

  

  Fernando Botero
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• I love pop music, but I feel like the genre is overpopulated - there was so much bubblegum for a while, but I feel like Sam Smith and Ed Sheeran are bringing good, real music back to the radio.

  

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• Music combines the temporal aspects of film and dance with the spatial aspects of painting and sculpture, where pitch space (or frequency space) takes the place of three-dimensional physical space... frequency maps in the auditory cortex... function much the way that spatial maps do in the visual cortex.

  

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• We're going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It's the result of machines that were designed as word processors being used for making music.

  

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• Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.

  

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• It may be that just as tonality recurs in music and realism in painting, so the idea of liberalism recurs in politics-though each time in a different vein.

  

  Eva Hoffman
  • Music
  • Painting
  • Realism