Dustin Hoffman Quotes
The plight of the actor, even if he's a star, is the plight of the women's movement. They're saying the same thing to us: get into bed, give me a good time, then give me something to eat, go get the laundry, be a good girl.
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I'm about a 160, 170 bowler so I feel like I'm pretty good - I'm average, but I don't stink, you know?
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The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
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I think the most important element of a power outfit is proper fit. The one item to focus on is a suit. If it's the right fit, you could wear it with a T-shirt and still convey the positive message.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
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I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
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I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.
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For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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That's one of the things I miss most about Australia - the countryside.
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I know career motivation and encouragement up the ladder of success have their place in the world. But I don't want them anywhere near my spirituality.
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Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.
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Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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Although sometimes I might sound sometimes idealist or too optimistic but I think my father used to say to me in everything bad there's something good that is going to come out of it and there will always be a tomorrow.
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I don't really get nervous about the people I'll audition for, especially if it's people I admire and want to work with: it actually makes me more excited.
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Fate has to do with events in history that are the summary and unintended results of innumerable decisions of innumerable men.
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Who you work with is even more important than who you hang out with because you spend a lot more time with your workmates than your friends.
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If a firm hasn't hired a single female partner in its history, I don't think it will finally happen by accident.
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I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
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The plight of the actor, even if he's a star, is the plight of the women's movement. They're saying the same thing to us: get into bed, give me a good time, then give me something to eat, go get the laundry, be a good girl.
