Alice Hoffman Quotes

I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life.

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• I have changed so much as an actor over the years.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Years
  • Actor
  • Over

• In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Just
  • Other
  • Speculation

• I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Writing
  • Author
  • Living

• All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • Life
  • Woman
  • Win

• It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Poems

• It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Mother
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Attitude
  • Excellence
  • Skill

• If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.

  

  Fanny Howe
  • Hope
  • Reading
  • Alone

• Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • World
  • May

• When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Paris

• I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Time
  • Good
  • High

• I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Look

• I like not to feel that all my eggs are in one basket, or I get nervous.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Nervous

• I never saw myself as being ambitious, I saw myself as being in love with the profession. I'm a people person. I love to get to know different kinds of people.

  

  Jack Kelley
  • Person
  • Profession
  • Ambitious

• Events tend to recur in cycles.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Events
  • Tend
  • Recur

• Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • Sometimes
  • Competitive

• Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Done
  • Community
  • Comedy

• That's why I talk about the breast cancer: because I want women - and everyone - to stay on top of things and get checked. I know how scary it can be. When I dealt with it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I have so many other friends who have gone through it or have suffered a loss.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • God
  • Women
  • Why

• I discovered cosplay because I was going to an anime convention and did some research, and found out people dressed up as characters. I made a very badly put-together costume because I felt this desire to dress up.

  

  Yaya Han
  • People
  • Up
  • Together

• The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Real
  • Dying

• My 'act' was schoolwork. I was your basic, garden-variety, ambitious, upwardly mobile, hard-working Jewish boy from Brooklyn. I was bound to go beyond my parents. It was simply the way things were.

  

  Clive Davis
  • Parents
  • Boy
  • Garden

• Germany is our second biggest trade partner after China, but some time ago it was first. China is developing rapidly and has already become the world's largest economy in terms of purchasing power parity. At any rate, as you know, on 8 October China was recognised as such, but naturally the US economy is much bigger overall for the time being.

  

  Dmitry Medvedev
  • Time
  • World
  • Power

• Yoga has been the best tool for managing stress and life's challenges. Everything from my studies to my father's death was eased by my practice of it.

  

  Christy Turlington
  • Life
  • Father
  • Death

• I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life.

  

  Alice Hoffman
  • Life
  • Real
  • Risk