Dustin Hoffman Quotes
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I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.
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In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.
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When people tell really good stories in songs, I really like it.
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I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.
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To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.
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There was a point I could have just churned out the spot and spin paintings for ever and laughed all the way to the bank.
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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
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I enjoy music so much; it's such a passion in my life, and I hope that comes across.
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If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.
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Hospice is such a tremendous thing. Patients seem to reach an inner peace.
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There is nothing more exciting than having a life devoted to fundamental knowledge and to contributing to advance the borders of knowledge.
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There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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I want to be able to sing well, but I have the worst voice in the world.
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It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.
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It's true that I love to connect with my fans on the social networking sites, but I try not to go overboard, ever. I just give people a peek into my mind space, but never bombard them with my tweets.
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For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you're writing, and for that you need silence.
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I was over there in Hawaii. I was there on the big island. The 'Big Island' - that name cracks me up. First of all, it's not that big, so I'm pretty sure a guy came up with that name. Carol Leifer
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Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because music is fun. Plan and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and what they can do when they get older.
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I still care about people but it would be so much easier not to care. I don't want to get to close: I don't like to touch things, that's why my work is so distant from myself Nicolas Love, April 1987
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That's the thing about zombies. They don't adapt and they don't think. Literally, you could have a zombie on one side of a chain link fence and you could be on the other side and they could be trying to get to you and six feet down could be an open door and they will not go through that door in the fence. That's why they're so scary.
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If there is no direct threat why are we invading?
