Alice Hoffman Quotes
All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are.
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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It's weird, because the ideas in my songs aren't controversial to me. I feel like I should be able to sing about anything.
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I'm fascinated by sports, the buzz of winning, and the buzz of losing.
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More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.
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I'm a big Stephen King fan.
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As more women 'lean in' and we collectively continue to fight sexism, there's another barrier to progress that hasn't been addressed: Many men who would like to see more women leaders are afraid to speak up about it.
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When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
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They hated Sammy Hagar for 12 years and they hate him to this day.
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What is needed by him who would succeed in the highest degree possible is careful planning. He is to accumulate reserved power, that he may be equal to all emergencies.
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I grew up being absolutely in love with Tom Hanks. I remember, all the kids had Brad Pitt plastered all over their textbooks, and then I had Tom Hanks plastered over mine.
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When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.
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I started as an engineer. I migrated to philosophy and international politics. And I did my studies about African – Africa democracy and democratization in Africa, taking Kenya as a model. And then, while I was doing so in 1996 in South Africa, Al Jazeera was established. So they requested me to be an analyst on African affairs.
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There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love. There are simply different ways of doing it.
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To tell the truth, the chariot was an astonishing sight to behold, because I had polished the steel of my flying house so carefully that it reflected the sunlight on all sides. It was so bright and dazzling that I thought, myself, that I had been carried away in a chariot of fire.
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Let us disperse from our aloofness and serve the weak who made us strong, and cleanse the country in which we live. Let us teach this miserable nation to smile and rejoice with heaven's bounty and glory of life and freedom.
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If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.
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One foot in front of the other. Repeat as often as necessary to finish.
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Before he became 'a working actor,' as he now proudly calls himself, Jamie Dornan initially caught the public's attention as a model - you may remember him from those greasy underwear ads with Eva Mendes, among many others.
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I'm getting sick and tired of doing anything half-way.
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. . . gastronomical perfection can be reached in these combinations: one person dining alone, usually upon a couch or a hill side; two people, of no matter what sex or age, dining in a good restaurant; six people . . . dining in a good home.
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All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are.
