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Been Quotes by Alice Hoffman
- My theory is that everyone at one time or another has been at the fringe of society in some way: an outcast in high school,…
- No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written
- I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those…
- She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place…
- Before she realized he was next to her, he had placed his hands over hers on the countertop, then hooped his fingers through hers. Gretel…
- They say that dogs may dream, and when Topsy was old, his feet would move in his sleep. With his eyes closed he would often…
- How could I have been so stupid to ignore everything I’d had in my life? The color red alone was worth kingdoms.
- I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.
- I wept to think that life went on even when so much had been lost, that rain still fell and myrtle grew between the rocks.
- Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who've been in love with the…
- I did go there later, but I hadn't been there before I wrote the book. Sometimes I feel like the imagined can feel more real…
More Been Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour