Alice Hoffman Quotes
I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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I don't want to fight anybody that just wants to hold you and try and eat the time.
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I live in Las Vegas with my family, and I never realized what my parents would go through to get me to a five-minute audition.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.
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At first, I didn't really have a passion for acting.
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All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.
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I think 'The Wire' really is relatable. It reflects an ongoing issue across America, about inaccuracies in major cities between rich and the poor and some of the things that go on behind the red tape of council and government bodies.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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I have made this one dish, a salted caramel chocolate ganache tart. It's so rich. You can only have a few bites!
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Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.
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I once went into a meeting, and every woman put her a million-pound bag on the table. Then I'm there with my tote bag and anorak. And I'm like, well, I'm still the most important person in the room right now.
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You have to be reasonable with yourself and not feel guilty when things aren't perfect.
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I'm old enough to chew my peas and corn without choking.
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It's no secret that the media has fragmented in recent years, that audiences have been cut into slivers, and that more and more people get their news from ever narrower outlets.
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My size is a huge part of me. You just have to appreciate those kinds of things. So I wasn't born with long legs - who cares. You just have to embrace it. Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness.
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The main part of the house is a deep red and I have butterscotch carpet. And I have a bathroom with leopard skin floor, wallpaper and toilet.
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Me in my music and onstage – that's me without any fears of judgement; that's me when I'm shining.
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The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
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It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
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Like knowing hostages, the AFL-CIO and its unions march in tandem to endorse the Democratic presidential nominees early in the primary season. They have given up their capacity for negotiation, so frightened are they of the Republicans. Meanwhile, the rank-and-file workers suffer their dwindling status in silence.
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A sequel is such a daunting thing, because you don't want to lose the magic and the charm of the first one.
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Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics.
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I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay.
