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.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Up
  • Different
  • Women

• I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• I voted for Barack Obama.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Barack Obama
  • Obama
  • Barack

• Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.

  

  Baha'u'llah
  • Him
  • Near
  • Unto

• I like men who paint or write or do something creative.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Men
  • Creative
  • Paint

• There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Times
  • Penalty
  • Those

• 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.

  

  Patrick Collison
  • Work
  • Business
  • Experience

• 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.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • People
  • Technology
  • Computers

• I feel like Nashville has watched me grow up in front of them, which is cool, but it kind of sucks at the same time because you get pigeonholed, like, 'Oh, she's the girl with the long hair that wears fairy dresses.' That was me at one point because I was new and I was young. But we all grow up.

  

  RaeLynn
  • Time
  • Girl
  • Hair

• 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.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• 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.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Character
  • Action
  • Drama

• I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.

  

  Dan Brown
  • People
  • Like
  • Learned

• If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • You
  • Moment
  • Living

• 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.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • World
  • Writing
  • Book

• Some friends are better shots than are casual enemies.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Friends
  • Better
  • Shots

• 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.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Mean
  • Week
  • Class

• All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Business
  • Man

• 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.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • World
  • Money
  • End

• You can't heal what you don't acknowledge.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • You
  • Acknowledge
  • Heal

• I've sung my whole life. I did a lot of musical theater growing up, I sing in the shower, sing in the car, sing everywhere really, on set at Chuck, all the time. I like it, and I've always felt like I've had a knack for it, or a talent for it, on some level, I don't know.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Most of the time I think we're really pretty positive and optimistic, and we're so lucky to have the life that we have and had with him.

  

  Dana Reeve
  • Time
  • Positive
  • Lucky

• A revolution is not a bed of roses.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Revolution
  • Bed
  • Roses

• Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head.

  

  Alice Hoffman
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  • Writing
  • Book