Alice Hoffman Quotes
I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned.
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How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.
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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!
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You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again.
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Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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I want to do that. That's my goal. I want to become a legend.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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Sometimes you're watching a great film actor, and if you stand 10 feet away from them, you're like, 'God, they're terrible. They're not doing anything.' And then you see the close-up, and it's so nuanced, and so much expression is happening. They were acting for that camera and for no one else.
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A hit film is what we work for as actors, as that goes to show that we have managed to entertain our audiences who shower us with their love and affection throughout the years.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
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I'm a military guy. I'm not a political character.
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Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.
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When I was young, we always went to our posh cousins at Christmas. My dad made sure we had new shoes and clean clothes - he was really proud - and that's why I felt different from everyone living around me. We had the first television on the estate, the first fridge.
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I disagree with everything John Updike has ever said.
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Such to me is the new image of aging; growth in self, and service for all mankind.
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As with real reading, the ability to comprehend subtlety and complexity comes only with time and a lot of experience. If you don't adequately acquire those skills, moving out into the real world of real people can actually become quite scary.
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It is never my custom to use words lightly. If twenty-seven years in prison have done anything to us, it was to use the silence of solitude to make us understand how precious words are and how real speech is in its impact on the way people live and die.
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I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned.
