Gaby Hoffmann Quotes

Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.

Gaby Hoffmann

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CreativityValueParentsPotential

I think that... I would say that sometimes people get afraid of when you're balancing comedy and drama.

Jim Rash

PeopleThinkComedyYouDramaSay

Of course, you always think about how it will be read. I always aim for a reading in one sitting.

Joan Didion

ReadingThinkYouSittingAimWill

I like a movie that the audience actively has to participate in, and not just casually observe. Whatever my part in it, just as an audience member, I find that exciting.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

FindAudienceWhateverObserveJust

There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.

John Dryden

MadKnowPleasureBeingNoneWhich

However, that old mode of Polish filmmaking virtually disappeared.

Andrzej Wajda

FilmmakingOldModeHoweverPolish

Well, I like way downtown near the Battery. I lived down there at this time and for, I guess, the following well, this is where I moved to uptown and I've been here for four years and this is 1965.

Robert Rauschenberg

TimeDownWayYearsLivedHere

When any fat is heated to frying temperatures, toxic volatile chemicals that can cause genetic mutations are released into the air.

Michael Greger

FatToxicAirGeneticCauseFrying

When I listen to music, there's usually some aspect of that music that I like, and that's what I take and try to bring into my own music. Bringing in other musicians to collaborate with is a good way for me to test out new ways or make music that I might have not discovered on my own.

Matisyahu

GoodMusicMeMusiciansNewTest

Just as we can no longer pretend that ducking under wooden desks will keep us safe from a nuclear bomb, we must no longer pretend that a large nuclear stockpile will protect us from the most immediate security threats the United States faces.

Mike Quigley

SecurityWillProtectSafePretend

The advantage of writing from experience is that it often provides you with details that you would never think of yourself, no matter how rich your imagination. And specificity in description is something every writer should strive for.

Christopher Paolini

ExperienceImaginationYourselfThink

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

Brian Eno

WorldDifferencesMoreJust OneJust

I definitely love to work, and I'm loving being a mommy, so I'd like to try to balance both.

Annie Wersching

WorkLoveBalanceLovingTryBeing

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