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" I grew up with artists and drag queens. These were just my neighbors and friends and the people who are raising me. "
Gaby Hoffmann
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" I was raised in a way where there was no distinction between kids and adults. "
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" 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. "
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" I didn't intend to introduce food so early, but she became very interested at about 5 months, and I just gave her whatever sort of nutrient-rich food I had. Her first food was smoked trout. "
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" I was watching 'Pulp Fiction' when we were making 'Now and Then'. I didn't care about 'Now and Then,' you know? "
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" I actually voted for Nader. "
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" I think sexuality is fluid, and we have such a strange relationship to it in this country. It's been so fixed and so controlled for so long. "
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" There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now. "
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People
Now
Media
" It's so nice that there's all this new space for new, good content. It's good news for us actors, since nobody makes real independent films anymore. "
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Nobody
Nice
Space
" I never set out to be an actor. Again, my mother presented this job by job to me at the time, and if it sounded fun, I would say yes and if it didn't, I would say no. I always knew, since I was 7 or 8 years old, that it was a means to an end and that I wanted to go to college. "
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Mother
Job
" I think that the fact that we had a trans woman on the cover of 'Vanity Fair'... is only good for the trans community. I can't imagine that the more we talk about this that it's not just doing everybody a lot of good. "
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" The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform. "
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Finance
Biggest
Campaign
" You can do your job and be yourself and be comfortable all at the same time! "
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Yourself
Time
" All my cousins steal things. They're just a bunch of thieves. My whole family is like that. You put something down for a second, and they steal it. You never see it again. "
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Down
You
See
" I just had fun making the movies - just being on set - but I didn't really care about the acting part. "
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Just
Making
Fun
" I'm basically useless in interviews because I don't remember anything. But I find it very peaceful, actually, because I have a sort of busy mind. I'm like, 'This is great!' "
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Mind
Busy
Peaceful
" I've always looked the same, and every 10 years, I'm a little bit in fashion. "
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Same
Little
Fashion
" Nicole Richie invited me to her birthday party, and it was at Michael Jackson's Neverland! "
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Birthday Party
Party
Me
" Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it. "
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Just
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Thought
" I'm interested in people. I'm curious about people, and of course we're curious about people whose work we respond to. So I'm not saying that I don't understand fascination with other people. But as it's dealt with in this American, modern-day culture, I find it not just boring but actually sort of destructive, really. "
Gaby Hoffmann
Work
Culture
American
" If you're working opposite an actor who can act, then all you have to do is listen and respond. "
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Actor
You
Working
" It's very odd that we have such an easy relationship to violence in this country, and we're still shocked by the female figure. "
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Country
Easy
Relationship
" I watched a lot of television as a kid, and the suburbs to me - that was exotic! Like, a mom and dad who lived in the same house and had jobs and cooked breakfast at the same time every morning and did laundry in a washing machine and dryer? That was like, 'Woah! Who are they? How do you get to be like that?' "
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Morning
Breakfast
Mom
" Every scene is on the table to collaborate on, to pick apart, to try a million different ways. Usually, what ends up occurring in the end is something that no single person knew would happen or had planned for. "
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Try
Table
Single
" I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them. "
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Kid
Relationship
People
" It was like I lived in a little suburban neighborhood in the middle of New York City because I could run around barefoot or, you know, completely independently from a very young age in the safety of this building where I knew everybody and where I had friends on every floor, and I knew the bellmen in the lobby. "
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New York
Age
Run
" Oh, I'm pregnant on 'Girls.' "
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Pregnant
Oh
" We all got driven out of Manhattan. It was a very conducive place for artists when I was growing up, and now it's definitely not. The city has been completely taken over by the rich. "
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City
Rich
Place
" I have a teacher friend who gets nervous when there's $200 in her account. But at least she knows that in a week, she'll get another paycheck. I have no idea. "
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Her
Friend
She
" It's funny because I grew up with the T.V. on 24 hours a day. And the more money I made, the more T.V.s we had. "
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Because
Day
" I had a world of people raising me; it was like a little village. "
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Village
World