Alice Hoffman Quotes

I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.

Alice Hoffman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TimeWomanFairyBeingWholeIdea

I think that the majority of messages are validating messages to confirm the survival of conscious. And many times that validation message is negative or sad.

John Edward

SadNegativeThinkSurvivalMajority

Stand-up for me is just my opinions on things, so it wouldn't be as fun translated into a sketch. Nor would a sketch be as fun if it were me standing there saying it.

John Mulaney

FunMeSayingOpinionsSketchJust

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

Maya Angelou

CouragePracticeYouImportant

If we understand the worm, we understand life.

John Sulston

LifeUnderstandWorm

Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes.

Robert Bolt

DeathKingsUsEvenHe

Open-heart surgery is now part of a typical life experience for many people. Folks talk casually about 'having a stent put in,' as if they had their tires rotated.

Roger Ebert

LifeExperiencePeopleNowTalk

Nothing in the world in perfect. Even a still photograph.

Roger Rees

WorldPerfectNothingPhotograph

John Henry Holliday didn't have a mother to love him when he was grown, so I have taken him for my own. My fondest hope for Doc is that it will win for him the compassion and respect I think he deserves.

Mary Doria Russell

LoveMotherHopeRespectCompassion

We live in a homogenized world, where it's hard to get excited when everything is slick and professional. The interesting things are the dull things.

Martin Parr

LiveWorldInterestingProfessional

In 2007, when I was a lawyer for the public interest group Free Press, I helped draft the complaint to the FCC against Comcast for secretly blocking BitTorrent and other technologies.

Marvin Ammori

FreeLawyerGroupFree PressAgainst

I didn't think I'd do movies in Los Angeles. I never thought it would happen. In fact, it was not a fantasy. For me, I said, 'If ever I go there, they will ask me to do 'Legally Blonde 5.'

Denis Villeneuve

MeThinkThoughtBlondeSaidMovies

The communities and countries best at using energy to optimize a microclimate for human life are also the ones whose people have the longest average lifespans. Canada, Sweden, and Iceland - places with inhospitable winter weather - are frontrunners in sustaining human health and life.

Chris Hadfield

LifeWinterHealthBestPeople

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