Gaby Hoffmann Quotes

I think mental illness is a slippery slope to talk about these days because people are overly diagnosed, overly prescribed, overly everything.

Gaby Hoffmann

Recitation: by Male by Female

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PeopleThinkMental IllnessTalk

My people are still poor. They're still working class. All of the characters that I write about are inspired by the community that I'm from.

Jesmyn Ward

CommunityPeopleClassPoorWrite

I'm not involved with the female world.

John Lone

WorldInvolvedFemale

Obituaries were among my favorite to write because they have elements no other news stories have - a story from start to finish with a proper conclusion.

Tom Rachman

StartStoryNewsWriteFinish

Don't fix what's not broken.

Robert Atkins

BrokenFix

I think a part of me romantically thinks it would be amazing to learn to dance or ice skate, but in reality, I don't think it would be beneficial to my career.

Russell Tovey

DanceAmazingMeThinkRealityIce

All my early books are written as if I were Indian. In England, I had started writing as if I were English; now I write as if I were American. You take other people's backgrounds and characters; Keats called it negative capability.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

PeopleWritingNegativeAmericanYou

To do my duty, I must obey God.

Roy Moore

GodDutyObeyMust

No person, no place, and no thing has any power over us, for 'we' are the only thinkers in our mind. When we create peace and harmony and balance in our minds, we will find it in our lives.

Louise L. Hay

PowerPeaceBalanceMindCreate

You've got people who are looking at DNA evidence and other evidence like that and they're ignoring it.

Joseph Wambaugh

PeopleLookingYouDNAEvidenceGot

There is a beauty and clarity that comes from simplicity that we sometimes do not appreciate in our thirst for intricate solutions.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

BeautySimplicityAppreciateClarity

I don't think breakups are ever easy for anybody. If they are, they aren't much of a breakup.

Chris Young

ThinkEasyMuchAnybodyEver

I cry at everything, even the length of the queue at Sainsbury's.

Arabella Weir

CryEverythingEvenLengthQueue

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