Alice Hoffman Quotes
Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head.
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Having Black hair is unique in that Black women change up styles a lot. You can walk down one street block in New York City and see 10 different hairstyles that Black women are wearing: straight curls, short cuts, braids - we really run the gamut.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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Stripe makes it easy for anyone, be it an individual or a small business or a large business, to accept credit card payments on the Internet. We want to give control to the user or the business to define what the experience looks like. We work on a website or a mobile app, or whatever between that.
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I used to have the very standard worldview. I can easily identify with people who see computers getting faster and smarter, and technology getting more and more beneficial, without seeing the other side.
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William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.
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I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.
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I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.
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If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.
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Some friends are better shots than are casual enemies.
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Working 40 hours a week used to mean a minimum standard of living and a foothold on the first rung of the economic ladder to the middle class.
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All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
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To be a more efficient, faster, and cheaper way to send money around the world, you have to be able to get in and out of Bitcoin. You need to have a liquid exchange on either end of the corridor.
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You can't heal what you don't acknowledge.
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For what St. Augustine said is true, that one can sing nothing worthy of God save what one has received from Him. Wherefore though we look far and wide we will find no better songs nor songs more suitable to that purpose than the Psalms of David, which the Holy Spirit made and imparted to him. Thus, singing them we may be sure that our words come from God just as if He were to sing in us for His own exaltation. Wherefore, Chrysostom exhorts men, women, and children alike to get used to singing them, so as through this act of meditation to become as one with the choir of angels.
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In a novel you have to resist the urge to tell everything.
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So if you're on the motorcycle, on the track you're not thinking at all about what's happening next week or tomorrow or anything. You're literally thinking about the turn you're setting up and there's something about that I find very cathartic and meditative.
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My father was an Austrian, and he brought some Torahs over to this country, ancient Torahs that were slipped out of Germany.
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On BBC Television's Panorama programme (22 January, 1968).
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Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head.
