Eva Hoffman Quotes
Laughter is the lightning rod of play, the eroticism of conversation; for now, I've lost the ability to make the sparks fly.
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I don't care about how much other actors get.
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Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81.
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When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.
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I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
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Jerusalem artichokes have a great affinity with nuts. I love them with chopped walnuts or almonds, lemon juice, garlic, herbs and plenty of olive oil.
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Three years is a lifetime in Hollywood. If your career starts slipping in L.A., you can really feel it. All of a sudden, the people that you were beating for a part start beating you.
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We are a breathtakingly alienated people... One of my props is the world's largest underpants. I've had the president of Costa Rica in my underpants with me.
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In the years to come, the combination of climate change and population growth could have a devastating effect on the planet and, needless to say, on humanity.
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However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly.
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Like anybody who grew up in the Eighties, I cringe at the thought of these movies being remade, because of the corniness and cheesiness of the originals.
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Between the mysteries of death and lifeThou standest, loving, guiding,- not explaining;We ask, and Thou art silent,- yet we gaze,And our charmed hearts forget their drear complaining;No crushing fate, no stony destiny!Thou Lamb that hast been slain, we rest in Thee.
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That should probably be written: no !@#$%^&*:@!semicolon
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After all, no one is ever taken in by the happy ending, but we are often divinely fuddled by the tragic curtain.
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Youth is something very new: Twenty years ago no one mentioned it.
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Looking back... I think the North Koreans think they can say whatever they want because no matter what they do, the Americans will never attack them.
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I don't know if I've ever read a movie that's as strange and unpredictable and hilarious and wonderful as the stuff we're doing on 'The Last Man on Earth.' It's jaw-dropping every week when I get a script, because it goes to such strange places.
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The people of Alabama are fed up. They are tired of politicians who lie to them, and they are sick of elected officials who've been in Washington so long they've forgotten why they ran in the first place.
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I struggle because I love food and sometimes I can't stop eating.
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If Jesus came back today, and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.
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My father's own view was more than entrepreneurship; it was really a passion to build an institution in India.
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I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.
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This is why magic is worse even than quantum physics. Because, while both spit in the eye of common sense, I've never yet had a Higgs bosun turn up and try to have a conversation with me.
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Laughter is the lightning rod of play, the eroticism of conversation; for now, I've lost the ability to make the sparks fly.
