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Alice Hoffman Quotes

Sometimes movies really are the best medicine.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Best Medicine Sometimes Movies

I live in New Orleans part of the year, and it's a really fun eating town. I bought two homes there, one to live in and one as an investment. They love to eat, drink and dress up in costumes. There are so many reasons to dress up - Mardi Gras, Halloween, Southern Decadence.

Jennifer Coolidge

Love Live Fun Dress Eating Year

It's definitely hard when you're putting in the work and the guy who's starting isn't, especially if he's overhyped or you're not winning. I can't imagine how hard it would be to be that guy's backup.

Matt Hasselbeck

Work Winning You Hard Starting Guy

Funerals are a pagan rite. There's not any doubt about it.

Doubt Pagan Funerals About Any Rite

I was in a lot of school plays, and it became the thing I did.

School Did Thing School Plays Plays

You are a role model to people. You gotta make sure you're doing the right thing.

People Doing The Right Thing Doing

I don't think I've necessarily been able to pick and choose in my career; I don't know how many people do. But I'll tell you what I've been able to do: I've been able to say no. It is the only thing you can hold on to sometimes, is that ability to say 'no.' And I think that in that way, you can create some kind of career.

People Think You Choose Career Know

I hate all that nonsense about not touching the colonialists' language. All that about it being corrupting and belonging to the master and making you Caliban. That thinking just denies you an outlet. You deny everything that is great from a language, whether it is Conrad or Shakespeare.

Great Hate Thinking Language You

To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named.

Christopher Alexander

Life Quality Man Building Wilderness

My family and I participate in 'Cycle for Survival.' it was started by a friend of my wife's who lost his wife to a rare form of cancer.

Family Friend Wife Survival Lost

I always want to be racing.

Racing Want Always

I worry when athletes are simply used by their universities to produce revenue, to make money for them, nothing to show at the back end. I grew up with a lot of players who had very, very tough lives after the ball started bouncing for them. And that's why I'm going to continue to fight.

Money Fight Tough End Worry Back

When we talk about women's struggle to balance their lives, certain men growl, 'If you can't stand the heat, get back to the kitchen.' Men who have never changed a nappy, mainly, and couldn't pick their child's teacher out in a police line-up.

Allison Pearson

Women Teacher Struggle Men Police

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