Alice Hoffman Quotes

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

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• Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Live
  • Kids
  • Hope

• If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Great
  • Home
  • Doubt

• I never want to make a complete, 180 reactional record. I wanted a connection to what I've done in the past but still move forward and evolve.

  

  Washed Out
  • Done
  • Want
  • Past

• If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Work
  • Home
  • Travel

• Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Insult
  • Okay
  • Principal

• It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • World
  • Different
  • Find

• Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Good
  • Hair
  • Red

• When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Women
  • Think
  • Beautiful

• I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • World
  • Long
  • Man

• Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.

  

  Karel Capek
  • World
  • Work
  • Men

• Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Family
  • Dying
  • Living

• Since beginning my work in areas like addiction, for example, I have seen time and time again that the roots of poor mental health in adulthood are almost always present in unresolved childhood challenges.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Time
  • Work
  • Health

• Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Children
  • Happy
  • Parents

• It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.

  

  Imran Khan
  • People
  • Important
  • Country

• Writing is the supreme solace.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Writing
  • Communication

• I think they have not learned over the years that the more you talk, the more I will want to beat you.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Think
  • Want
  • Talk

• I'm also pretty resilient and fearless, and when I want something I go for it.

  

  Dagmara Dominczyk
  • Pretty
  • Want
  • Fearless

• But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to - that's your timing, that beat of excitement. And when I go on stage, it's just like taking a step into heaven. Poof, you know? Poof - and there I am.

  

  Eddie Bracken
  • Work
  • Stage
  • Excitement

• I know how to love thoseWho love me, how to hate.

  

  Archilochus
  • Hate

• All too often, it seems, we're willing to be students of Christianity rather than disciples of Christ.

  

  K. P. Yohannan

• 'Frontline' started doing digital content in 1995. We started streaming our films in 2000.

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • Doing
  • Content
  • Digital

• I worked at The Old Globe Theater under the great baton of Craig Noel. One of the great theater heroes that we have. He was so great and so inspirational. I think I did 'Antony and Cleopatra' and 'The Taming of the Shrew'. I lived in Ocean Beach, and my rent was $140 a month.

  

  Jeffrey Tambor
  • Great
  • inspirational
  • Ocean

• Climate change joined immigration, job creation, food safety, pilot training, veterans' care, campaign finance, transportation security, labor law, mine safety, wildfire management, and scores of executive and judicial appointments on the list of matters that the world's greatest deliberative body is incapable of addressing.

  

  George Packer
  • World
  • Job
  • Law

• It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

  

  Alice Hoffman
  • World
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