Alice Hoffman Quotes
I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist.
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We are poor, feeble, and blind mortals when the eye of the Almighty looks through all worlds and by his power executes all things aright, and by his grace, he makes us all rich in Heavenly Gifts. In distress and in bereavements, we can look only to him. From mortals like ourselves we can derive no help.
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There's layers to our stuff: Our top layer is like candy-coated pop, because we want to party and have a nice time, but we also have a lot of different human experiences and other levels present in the Die Antwoord experience.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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I think we respond well when we do something well.
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The interesting thing about blockchain is that it has made it possible for humanity to reach a consensus about a piece of data without having any authority to dictate it.
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Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
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A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
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It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
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There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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I'm not cynical.
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Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
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I've been in a gym probably nine days of my life.
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If you believe - which I do - that acting is a bit like advocacy for your character, then of course I want to find the positive points.
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We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.
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Eating is my main hobby now, and most of what I do on the weekend revolves around that.
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If you are going to call a film a 'black film' then you have to make a film that represents everyone that's black, which is almost impossible. That is why white films are not called white films, they are just called 'films.'
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I just would like to be challenged. I want to push myself to the limit, and constantly challenge myself and grow as an artist. That's where I want to go. Explore different things, different characters, in film, and just everything!
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Young children learn in a different manner from that of older children and adults, yet we can teach them many things if we adapt our materials and mode of instruction to their level of ability. But we miseducate young children when we assume that their learning abilities are comparable to those of older children and that they can be taught with materials and with the same instructional procedures appropriate to school-age children.
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The NYPD was ubiquitous. They were always around Malcolm X. Whenever Malcolm spoke, there would be one or two dozen cops all over the place.
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It's amazing, it doesn't feel like it has been 10 years since retirement.
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I mean, one shot you treat like you have forty little matches instead of one forty shot match. It makes all the difference in the world. It's easier to just forget about a not so good shot.
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I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist.
