Dustin Hoffman Quotes

I wanted to find my limitations so I decided to do Shylock. And if I fail? I've never been afraid of that. I have other fears - doing bad work knowingly is the worst fear.

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• If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.

  

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• You'll probably find most models are incredibly insecure about their bodies.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
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• I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.

  

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• I want to find a nice decent job as a helicopter pilot.

  

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• I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto.

  

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• I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
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• To tell you the truth, I hadn't seen any Pixar until I went to see 'Wall-E,' and I watched it and I was shocked to see how adult it was, with the setting in our lives, both present and future, and how they dealt with it... And then quite relieved to find that the one I was working on, 'Up,' how adult it was.

  

  Ed Asner
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• As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
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• A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.

  

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• I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent.

  

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• Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

  

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• I wanted to play Dracula because I wanted to say: 'I've crossed oceans of time to find you.' It was worth playing the role just to say that line.

  

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• Almost everyone will find something in our services worth paying for.

  

  Gavyn Davies
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• I will just generalise it that anything that I find too disgusting is not worth an answer.

  

  Yami Gautam
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• I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible.

  

  Samuel Barber
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• History, at its best, always tells us as much indirectly about ourselves as it does directly about our predecessors, and it is often most revealing when it deals with episodes and phenomena that we find repulsive.

  

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• I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find the research. It's my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation.

  

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• There certainly is such a thing as screen chemistry, although I don't believe you find it frequently.

  

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• A changeling is one child substituted for another. I couldn't find anything more apt. We had to kind of fight that supernatural element in the publicity, and I offered to try and find another title, but Clint liked it, and it stayed.

  

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• Some men never find prosperity, For all their voyaging, While others find it with no voyaging.

  

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• You know, I haven't written as much as most other writers. Certainly maybe those who keep a more regular schedule accomplish more.

  

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• In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment.

  

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• I wanted to find my limitations so I decided to do Shylock. And if I fail? I've never been afraid of that. I have other fears - doing bad work knowingly is the worst fear.

  

  Dustin Hoffman
  • Find
  • Limitations
  • Shylock