Alice Hoffman Quotes
I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.
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Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.
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I'm like a mechanic. If you break down and phone the AA, they'll come to you whether it's raining or snowing. That's what an actor should do.
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The business part of it can be very vexing. You always have to keep certain metrics and everything. Because all I can do is make a good show.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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If you want to grow a beard like mine, the only thing I can tell you is that you have to have patience. You just have to let it grow.
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
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I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.
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We are building technology to keep up with what's happening in the world. It's transforming the way people are working. We're bringing the enterprise to the world.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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While I did not get any formal training in acting, every summer vacation, from the age of five, my father would take me to Ooty with him, and I would do films as a child star. I did over 10 films like that, and it was understood that post finishing my education, I would become an actor.
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I'm just going to be myself; there's no reason for me to try and go out there and put a certain facade on or emphasize, 'Hey, I'm this. You need to believe it.' I just want to be the best that I can be, and if people like me, that's great, and if they don't, they don't.
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Losing feels worse than winning feels good.
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To survive is to win.
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I don't think anybody wants to see a dour 'Star Trek' movie.
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Most believers struggle to really believe in the supernatural as a meaningful, deterministic reality except during moments when they are drawn to it, perhaps during a worship service or while reading a novel like 'Adam.' Being drawn to this truth is the first step to living a life in accordance to this truth.
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I'll always take Scrabble and chess if I'm going filming. But I do have the Scrabble dictionary, which can be infuriating for other players.
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I try to understand the rules and follow them. And I try to make sure that I'm disclosing my obligations.
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I want to show people they don't have to be scared of being different.
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I don't want the kind of theater that I love and grew up seeing to die out.
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If I was British, I would vote resolutely 'remain' because it's in the U.K.'s interest.
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I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.
