"I basically took six or seven years off, but then I had another five or four of me not working at all because I was in school. It was really 13 years of me not working at all I really couldnt even think about it."

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Source : "Sundance/SXSW Comeback Kid Gaby Hoffmann On Still Feeling Green Despite Growing Up a Child Star". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. February 27, 2013.

Gaby Hoffmann

#School Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Years Quotes

“Screening telephone calls with a receptionist or the humbler answering machine is not a dishonorable thing to do. The warmest people in the world still need uninterrupted time to attend to their lives and should not be outwitted if they have made it obvious that they are not always available upon summons.”
“As a painter, I realized that what we see is just manifestation of unseen power. Since then [1958 Coup in Iraq], reality started to take another form in my mind. Hence, I was aware of deception of our senses.”
“We talk to each other in code. We said that 420 was a special number. It was a time. It was a date. It was a symbol for what we did for passive resistance.”
“President Roosevelt's leadership put the world on notice that the United States of America - with the freest, most dynamic economy the world had ever seen - was open for business.”
“I will absolutely say that Johnny Ramone was a huge influence on me. I'm a giant Ramones fan.”
“I always thought it better to allow myself to doubt before I decided, than to expose myself to the misery, after I had decided, of doubting whether I had decided rightly and justly.”

Source : "The Public and Private Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon: With Selections from His Correspondence". Book by Horace Twiss, 1844.
“The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred with dust and sweat; who strives valiantly; who errs and may fall again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming.”
“For where is the man that has incontestable evidence of the truth of all that he holds, or of the falsehood of all he condemns; or can say that he has examined to the bottom all his own, or other men's opinions? The necessity of believing without knowledge, nay often upon very slight grounds, in this fleeting state of action and blindness we are in, should make us more busy and careful to inform ourselves than constrain others.”

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