Dustin Hoffman Quotes
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All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.
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I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.
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If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.
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When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe. And I think that's a really dangerous, limiting mindset.
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A lot happens in 20 years.
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Whether it's backing up or starting, I have the confidence to go out there and do good, so I'm gonna play my role.
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Multinationals are more sensitive to public pressure because they have bigger brand names, and they have made commitments to be environmentally sensitive. Chinese firms are not used to this kind of pressure yet.
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I don't want to be submerged by depression.
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I'm sure it's why I'm such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I've always been equally fair to men.
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Something on mainstream radio is very in your face with the vocals. I tried that, and it just doesn't feel like Washed Out. It's got to have that haziness to it.
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I don't dictate the solos and I don't dictate the vocal harmonies.
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I also meet with city officials, representatives from governors' offices, really anyone in that sort of position who has shown an interest in youth fitness, to let them know why this sort of program is so important. I give the same message when I speak at conferences.
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When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined.
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I am not religious in the dogmatic sense … I neither believe nor disbelieve in anything.
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In a film, you have to externalize things that are internal and of course it becomes a debate about to what extent you do that.
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Here in America, the big-brand collaborations kind of signify how far you've gotten. So in that sense, it's a giant kudos to us that we, within the first year, get to be the first ones to be the launchers of this Pepsi Sound Drop.
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I would like to be known as a great leader, not as a great woman leader.
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Isn't there a curious elegance in how one moment passes into another?
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I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.
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On YouTube, if anything, coming out as gay or bi or trans explodes someone's popularity.
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I knew I finally made it as a performer when I began hearing rumors that I was gay.
