Alice Hoffman Quotes

Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.

Alice Hoffman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkChildrenTimeMomSpending Time

I'd been writing fiction for 50 years, since I was 19. And when you write fiction, it becomes a way of thinking: there's always a novel around. The strange thing was that after 'Remember Me,' there wasn't.

Melvyn Bragg

MeWritingThinkingRememberYou

The thing about 'Gilmore Girls' is that it's such a specific voice, and I lived with it for so long before it got on the air It's a very specific rhythm and a very specific banter.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

VoiceLongRhythmAirLivedGot

I have a great relationship with animals, and with children. I get to their level. I try to see the way a child looks at the world, it's hugely different.

Story Musgrave

RelationshipChildrenGreatChild

The fundamentalist religions simply seem to offer more hope for a brighter future than do the more liberal, humanistic ones.

Martin Seligman

FutureHopeMoreReligionsSeem

Economic theory dictates that the value of a company is basically the present value of its future profits. To estimate Facebook's value through its future profits, we need to have a view on its user growth and how this will evolve in the next 10 to 50 years.

Didier Sornette

GrowthFutureValuePresentView

Surface R&B doesn't work any more. The whole heartthrob thing, songs about unrealistic love and tearing your shirt off every show - that's not really where it's at any more. It's becoming harder for those guys to sell records, and harder for them to succeed.

Drake

WorkLoveSucceedMoreShirtSell

It turns out that cholera is new to Haiti. It was inadvertently introduced by a group of U.N. peacekeepers stationed in central Haiti who had come from South Asia where it is endemic.

Christy Turlington

NewGroupOutHaitiWhereCome

The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important.

Brooke Shields

PerspectiveUnderstandingImportant

I want to wear things that make me feel good.

Ashley Nell Tipton

GoodMeFeel GoodFeelWantWear

At the very end of a book I can manage to work for longer stretches, but mostly, making stuff up for three hours, that's enough. I can't do any more. At the end of the day I might tinker with my morning's work and maybe write some again. But I think three hours is fine.

Peter Carey

WorkMorningDayBookThinkEnd

I feel very comfortable with the U.K. tone and humour and laid-back attitude.

Shawn Mendes

AttitudeFeelComfortableHumour

America lost its face with the debacle of the Vietnam War.

Tiny Tim

WarFaceAmericaLostVietnam War

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