Alice Hoffman Quotes

Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a certain quality to the landscape that definitely leads into the dark woods.

Alice Hoffman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 16, 1952

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QualityPeopleWoodsThinkMagicUs

Working on a film, the setup for an action sequence takes a long time, and we need to shoot the scene many times to get different angles.

Jet Li

TimeActionLongLong TimeNeed

Illegal immigration continues to be a major problem in the United States. We have people waiting to come here legally. And we should not be rewarding people who have come here illegally.

John Barrasso

WaitingPeopleImmigrationProblem

I'm sort of agnostic. I grew up Catholic and switched to Episcopalian in college because I sang in churches to have money to buy pizza and french fries.

Robert Lopez

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This may be done by grafting, by confining the roots, withholding water, bending the branches, or in a hundred other ways which all proceed upon the same principle.

Robert Fortune

WaterRootsDoneSameBranchesMay

Out of college, I had two job offers. One was to be a canoe instructor for Outward Bound. And frankly, that would have paid better than the job I took, working on a policy commission in Washington that focused on immigration policy and refugees. But that decision made all the difference.

Rob Portman

DecisionJobCollegeBetterFocused

Women love an honest man.

Rita Ora

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I simply can't buy as much of some stocks such as Detection Systems or United Education & Software as I'd like because there just aren't all that many shares available.

Louis Navellier

EducationSoftwareBuyAvailable

I wasn't absolutely too sure where the Falklands was, and I didn't want to make a bloody fool of myself.

Denis Thatcher

MyselfFoolWantWhereSureMake

This is still a big barrier for me and it is for a lot of foreign actors.

Chow Yun-Fat

MeBigStillBarrierForeignLot

The whole film is about people being convinced that they can reduce themselves to their archetypes.

Atom Egoyan

PeopleArchetypesBeingFilmWhole

President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information.

Pierre Salinger

InformationPresidentComingUpBits

Hardly can it be judged whether it be better for mankind to believe that the gods have regard of us, or that they have none, considering that some men have no respect and reverence for the gods, and others so much that their superstition is a shame to them.

Pliny the Elder

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