Eva Hoffman Quotes
The story isn't over, it isn't foreclosed, and that's the point: there's a tiny chink into the future that might be wedged open.
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We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.
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I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
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I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.
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Most of my stuff, I never really watch.
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I want to be judged on my own merits.
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The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
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Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world.
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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I'm lucky to come from a very musical family. If you put a record on and turn the volume up, there's a pretty good chance you'll have a lot of people dancing very quickly.
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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
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I just love scary movies. I love the thrill.
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I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
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I was this non-threatening funny guy who contrasted the image of the Brezhnevs and the Reagans of the world.
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I really don't want to be known as a fashionista. I'd like to be someone more than that.
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I did a lot of theater in college, and I knew that not many people make it, but I just figured, 'Well, I really want to try acting while I'm young, and I don't ever want to look back and say that I never gave it a try.' I fully figured I'd be back in grad school - probably for psychology.
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Most of the time I spend looking for the 25th hour in the day, the ninth day in the week, the 32nd day in the month and the 367th, eighth or 70th day in the year because I feel I have a very rich life.
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How could this great land of plenty produce too few people in the last 30 years?
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An executive producer with an all-male writing staff once inadvertently revealed his deep, dark fear. While discussing a full-time position for me, he mused out loud, 'I wonder if having a woman in the room will change everything.' Of course, what he really meant was: 'I wonder if having a woman in the room will change me.'
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The usual reason companies are funded or valued on the stock market for not having a current profit is because the investors believe there will be a future profit.
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No dream is too big. No challenge is too great. Nothing we want for our future is beyond our reach.
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The story isn't over, it isn't foreclosed, and that's the point: there's a tiny chink into the future that might be wedged open.
