Dustin Hoffman Quotes
In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't really know that I'm aware of a lot of the inspiration and influence that I'm under, because I didn't have an extensive musically educational upbringing.
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The world is shifting from a hegemonic era, where the United States dominated alone, to a multipolar system.
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I'm doing a play, a musical. The musical follows the Mamma Mia concept. It's my first LA theater project.
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Painful emotions show you what prevents you from creating harmony, cooperation, sharing and reverence for life.
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The spirit of Dunkirk is something everyone grew up learning about. After Dunkirk, everyone came together and it set the tone in the U.K.
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The history of Guitar Hero is pretty spectacular. Really, I don't know of another franchise that has captured the imagination of the world so quickly and so powerfully and so positively in such a short period of time.
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One of the things that was most shocking to me about starting to work in the funeral industry is just how industrial the environment is.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
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Sunlight is one and the same wherever it falls; but only a bright surface like that of water, or of a mirror reflects it fully. So is the light Divine. It falls equally and impartially on all hearts, but the pure and pious hearts of holy men receive and reflect that light well.
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LEXICOGRAPHER - A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.
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Officious, innocent, sincere,Of every friendless name the friend.
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'I ignore religions,' said Brawne Lamia. 'I do not succumb to them.'
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There are certain expectations placed on writers if other people have put a value on their gender. I'm aware of the hundreds of tiny differences that happen when people are seeing your gender before they see something else.
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I'm really just trying... to write what feels true to me. I don't think about a lofty responsibility. I think I'd be paralyzed by that. Like any of my male colleagues, I'm writing the stories that interest me in a way that feels true to me.
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You don't usually have to wait a month for a new episode of a TV show. We ask comic readers to wait a month for a new issue, and honestly, given the time that it takes to put them together, a month is really too fast.
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Spanish is such an important language globally.
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I have a mission, and that's to help people. That's what I want my music to do.
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My mother is always the most vulnerable person in any room, and so I definitely have that part of her inside me.
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I like a good cleanse in the morning, and I use 'Cetaphil', which is cheap but really works.
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I wanted to be a great white hunter, a prospector for gold, or a slave trader. But then, when I was eight, my parents sent me to a boarding school in South Africa. It was the equivalent of a British public school with cold showers, beatings and rotten food. But what it also had was a library full of books.
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I didn't want to wear a checked shirt and grow a mustache - that's what you had to do, and everyone did.
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I was in my 30s when I finally went to film school. It was kind of always going to happen, but I did try to keep it suppressed for awhile.
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In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.
