Alice Hoffman Quotes
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Anonymity breeds meanness.
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I made a lot of money, and I want to give something back to my country.
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I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he was really nice, and I ripped his chest hair out.
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A president can't go to every memorial service.
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Golf is played with the arms.
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I'd like to work on job and educational opportunities for all.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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Because of the many dimensions of forms of though which you can also put into physical form, you have the possibility to create much which we cannot fashion in the same manner.
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We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.
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I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.
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Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it.
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Don't know if I'm a nerd - I'm more of a geek.
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I repent daily my sins, my faults, and my shortcomings.
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I feel very lucky and privileged to be a writer. I feel lucky in the sense that I can branch out into prose and tell different kinds of stories and stuff. But being a writer is so great because you're literally not dependent on anybody.
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People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
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Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.
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Short cuts make long delays.
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When you are racing in an able-bodied competition, you're all equal and you go out there and try your best, and that's what counts.
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The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go to my grave making this point - is how you think.
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Pregnancy was probably the best and the hardest thing I'll ever go through. I know for a lot of women, it can be wonderful and relatively easy.
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Zen practice asks you not to worry about who you 'should' become. Find out who you are right now.
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In theater or movies you see either 'I'm religious' or 'I'm an atheist.' I've never seen too much discussion of 'I believe there's a higher power but I'm hesitant to reach out to him because I don't know if I'm worthy of his attention.'
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There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.
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Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by.
