Eva Hoffman Quotes
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I've been to a few conventions, you know, when the tax man knocks at the door and the 'Star Wars' convention people say: 'Do you want to come and sign some autographs?'
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I must never write when I do not want to write.
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I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
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My main thing is music; it's what I do.
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I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you. I read a lot of scripts. Most of 'em go to other actors.
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There is not a job I've held in my career that was held by a woman before me.
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All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.
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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
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So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.
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Publishers have realized that, unlike the previous time period, American teenagers are both smarter and require more topical material than they had been giving them before that. For one thing, they'll read thicker books. Besides, has anybody looked at the news or read the newspapers recently?
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I first saw Walter Hill's second film, 'The Driver,' as a teenager, late at night on the BBC, quite possibly sitting too close to the telly. Given that this 1978 slice of neo-noir takes place almost entirely in the dark streets of a deserted downtown L.A., it's really a perfect midnight movie.
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The education of peoples is a necessary precondition to peace.
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To seek the highest good is to live well.
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Ever since I've been young I've been fascinated by the human body. I've written songs about it, but you can become quite morbid if you think about it too much - paranoid and a hypochondriac.
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The young are going to be the messengers of this continued strengthening of the diversity in America.
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American companies will have a big shot at Iraqi oil.
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I hate the business part of music. Music is just like the streets. There's loyal and disloyal people, people saying one thing and then don't do it.
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Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.
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I'm in no hurry to get old. But when I do, I'll be out to enjoy every last minute. I see myself at 90 in some nursing home, waving my walking stick about as I jive to Gene Vincent records.
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There's many things that I am. And all of those things come together at some point. If somebody wants to limit me, you know and they'll say, 'Well, this is Walter Mosley, the mystery writer.' I don't like that. Because I do many things.
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I've never worked for a show or was on a show where I didn't have a lot of control creatively, but then again, I haven't worked on a lot of shows.
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The past depends on the angle from which it is seen and from which it has been lived.
