Alice Hoffman Quotes

I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.

Alice Hoffman

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• I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Game
  • Play
  • Enjoy

• When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Future
  • Past
  • Mistake

• I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Serious

• It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • New
  • New York
  • Flying

• Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Life
  • Family
  • Social

• When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Really
  • Little
  • Crystal

• Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

  

  Gail Godwin
  • Good
  • Education
  • Theatre

• On certain, delicate subjects, bringing in outsiders to talk about values is pertinent because pupils listen to them more attentively.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Values
  • Listen
  • Talk

• The funny thing is that my husband couldn't be sweeter. He looks like this bad boy. He's got tattoos and earrings and a mohawk, but when you talk to him and he's around you, he's such a gentleman. He holds doors for ladies. He pulls out chairs. He cooks. He cleans.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Bad
  • Funny
  • Boy

• I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Song

• There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.

  

  D. L. Hughley
  • Great
  • Wine
  • Nothing

• It was all men, and there I was prancing around in gowns that barely got past the censors.

  

  Karen Morley
  • Men
  • Past
  • Got

• I think Deborah Harry has a really sexy, cool and quite playful sex-kitten kind of style I really like.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Style
  • Cool
  • Sex

• The first dress that I wore in the Spice Girls, which everybody thought was a little black Gucci dress, was actually from Miss Selfridge - it wasn't a little black Gucci dress.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Black
  • Thought
  • Dress

• I cannot live anywhere else except India.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Live
  • India
  • Else

• In our sport, there's only two people, so if you're not winning, then you're losing.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • People
  • Winning
  • Losing

• In order to obtain the optimum view of what takes place in front of me, I should have to lower my eyes a little. But I lower my eyes no more. In a word, I only see what appears close beside me, what I best see I see ill.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Eyes

• The real war poets are always war poets, peace or any time.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Time
  • Real
  • War

• That's what politics is. It's the story of what's happening, what does it mean, what's the conclusion, who are the interesting characters?

  

  John Dickerson
  • Interesting

• I worked every waking minute, nights and weekends, in order to make enough money to buy those summers off, and even then we wouldn't have made it except that my mother helped out with a yearly check and my father bought me a car when my old one die

  

  Debra Dean
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Night

• In case Japan ventures to attack the Mongolian People's Republic, seeking to destroy its independence, we will have to assist the Mongolian People's Republic.

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • Independence
  • Destroy
  • Ventures

• The rites were just the husks left over from deeper things, no pith remaining and no mystery, nothing to lift up the soul or go to the brain like wine. And, as generally happens, the more truth the ritual lost the more they bolstered it with significance. There is a saying among the Moi: The chief is clad in gold and purple, only the god dares to go naked.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Up
  • God
  • Truth

• The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Men
  • Fool
  • Truth Is

• I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.

  

  Alice Hoffman