Alice Hoffman Quotes
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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Sofia Coppola is wonderful, and I'd love to work with her.
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Hallucinatory - that's just the way everyday life is, in Colombia. All the time, you say to yourself, did I just see that?
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I really don't have the time to spend much time online, I do have web tv, which I use when I need information.
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Imagine if someone like John Lennon or Bob Marley, Sid Vicious, Picasso, whomever, were doing their work, and some corporation, some CEO, some branding entity was saying to you, 'Well, you can do that, but you've got to remove this aspect of your work.' There would no longer be that purity anymore.
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It's a lot of work and I also feel like I've done it. I miss comedy. And I also think that, from purely a logistical standpoint, that the day-to-day schedule on a comedy allows you to have a life, much more of a life, than on a drama.
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The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic.
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I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.
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A 90-minute time frame is not long enough to tell a good female story, and that's why long-format television has become so great for female storytelling and for female performers and directors and writers.
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For being in a relationship or to be linked up with somebody, you need to have time. I hang out with my friends just at my leisure, but there's no time to get into any link up.
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Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.
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The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
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I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family took so much of my time, I didn't have a chance to be with him very often.
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I created my own charity called My Peak Challenge. We've been able to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds. It's helping change people's lives, and I've had lots of wonderful letters about it.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
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The only time a friend has ever helped me in the industry was how I got my first job - that was through Mike Figgis.
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Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.
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You get so caught up in what you're writing - action sequences tend to do that more than anything else because you're living it, and feeling for your characters.
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Socialism, as I understand it, is a system of democracy. Without democracy, there is no socialism.
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Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.
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That’s a whole new type of stupid.
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Oh, you know what, it's an honor to be mentioned in the company of those that might lead our country forward after President Obama.
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I can't really work on more than one thing at a time.
