Dustin Hoffman Quotes
One of the things you can do as an actor, is compensate for the things you can't do in life.
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I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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I'm not a good guitar player.
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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
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A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought that was exquisite.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you're setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones.
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I kind of always struggled writing in Malay, because Malay is such a beautiful language. And it gets really hard, you know, if you want to make it into a song. You have to make it sound beautiful, use the right words.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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That's been the most exciting part of the show - incorporating the magic and the acrobats and the singing and dancing to make our 'Pippin.'
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We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of Libertarian Communism.
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You have to be very strong and headstrong to make your place. You have to know how to say no. Patience is very important.
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I thought I would set the world on fire when I got out of college. I had done quite well in a field that was growing. Unfortunately, we got hit with a recession in 1981.
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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I like celluloid, I like film, I like the way that when a movie is projected it sort of breathes a little in the gate. That's the magic of it to me.
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It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.
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People are not used to seeing skiing on water, so I can understand why they think it is fake. That's why we started using outside views: so people can see that's its real.
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We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die....So just standing still isn't really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.
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I went to Baltimore School of the Arts, which is known for discovering Tupac and Jada Pinkett-Smith.
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It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we're always in other places, lost, like sheep.
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Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.
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One of the things you can do as an actor, is compensate for the things you can't do in life.
