Gaby Hoffmann Quotes

I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting.

Gaby Hoffmann

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I don't even attempt to sing.

Joe Mauer

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I grew up when the whole Motown thing was huge. The charts in those days were dominated by groups more than solo artists at one point.

Simon Cowell

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I hope always to be busy, even if only directing an orchestra in the pit. However, I should prefer to produce movies or be the directing head of a radio corporation.

Rudy Vallee

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As Muslim women, we're not waiting for the president of the United States to open doors for us or to fight our fights.

Mona Eltahawy

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My team and I used the actual footage to create a three-act story of the life of Ayrton Senna. There are no talking heads and no voiceover. Senna narrates his own epic, dramatic, thrilling journey.

Asif Kapadia

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The myths connected with individual sanctuaries and ceremonies were merely part of the apparatus of the worship; they served to excite the fancy and sustain the interest of the worshipper... no one cared what he believed about its origin.

William Robertson Smith

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Government is not the generator of economic growth; working people are.

Phil Gramm

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There is an element in which anxiety co-represents with aspects of my personality I wouldn't want to give up. It allows you to have foresight. I may not be as empathetic. It's hard to figure out the difference between pathology and personality.

Scott Stossel

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Science fiction, in its purest form, for me, it works the best when it's being used as metaphor to look at something from a one-step-removed process, to give a little objectivity and insight into something that, if you were applying it on the face of it, we'd all be too close to.

Noah Wyle

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I don't give any gifts to the rich.

Nicolas Sarkozy

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If one of my colleagues wants to block a bill, they should stand up in front of the American people and explain why.

Kirsten Gillibrand

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Fencing is a funny sport. Competitive fencing is not really very applicable to the stage world unless you're fighting with a rapier during the Renaissance, you know?

Kris Holden-Ried

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