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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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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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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I know what I like in other actors: truth. That's the best. It makes you say, 'OK, I'll go with you on this.'
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The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation, so make your words count.
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If the man be really the weaker vessel, and the rule is necessarily in the wife's hands, how is it then to be? To tell the truth, I believe that the really loving, good wife never finds it out. She keeps the glamor of love and loyalty between herself and her husband, and so infuses herself into him that the weakness never becomes apparent either to her or to him or to most lookers-on.
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As though "the Truth" were such an innocent and incompetent creature as to require protectors!
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I can be just a touch controlling!
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I did grow up in a household in which I felt that to be myself was to damage the people I loved.
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The evidence for our New Testament writings is ever so much greater than the evidence for many writings of classical authors, the authenticity of which no one dreams of questioning. And if the New Testament were a collection of secular writings, their authenticity would generally be regarded as beyond all doubt.
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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.
