Alice Hoffman Quotes
I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them.
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Truth in our society often takes a back seat to securing gainful consequences.
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I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.
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The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism.
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It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-'80s, and we had the '85 Bears and the Michael Jordan era.
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I used to say to my bubbe, 'Bubbe, is this story true?' And she'd say, 'Of course it's true! But it may not have happened.' What my bubbe was saying is profound: All stories are true. The truth is the journey you take through it - did it make you laugh, cry, seek and want justice? Then it's true.
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Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.
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'Tryin' to Get the Feeling' has been a revelation. I'd forgotten how powerful that was. I'd forgotten how deep I can crawl into that one, and maybe because I'm older it means even more.
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The rewards of the wild and the rewards of the survivor go to those who can dig deep, and, ultimately, to the guy who can stay alive.
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Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.
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I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator.
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The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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I love a good massage, and they gotta go deep.
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Within the black community, roughly 60 percent of children are born to single moms. Moms don't have the emotional wherewithal to deal with their children. Their English is atrocious. Their speaking is atrocious. The dropout rate is horrendous.
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In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.
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The truth is that I've always wanted to be an actor, ever since I was a child. I used to see these English movies which were shown to us in our school every Saturday, and then I used to enact the hero's part in my head.
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There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it's your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can't package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking.
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Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.
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Most people believe that inequality is rising - and indeed it has been rising for a while in a number of rich countries. And there is lots of talk and realization of this. It's harder to understand that at the same time, you can actually have global inequality going down. Technically speaking, national inequality can increase in every single country and yet global inequality can go down. And why it is going down is because very large, populous, and relatively poor countries like India and China are growing quite fast.
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Love means attention, which means looking after the things we love. We call this stable management.
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My favorite singer is Lauryn Hill - all time, hands down. She was my biggest inspiration growing up.
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When we point to obstacles we inhibit progress. When we offer solutions we advance.
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I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them.
