Dustin Hoffman Quotes
I think right now television is the best that it’s ever been, and I think that it’s the worst that film has ever been.
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Usually, if you read a script by somebody else and there's a dense page of stage directions, people just skip through it or speed read it.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.
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I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I'm grateful that I'm still living and making music among the greats.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
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Boys wear their hearts on their sleeves. Even when they're trying to pull one over on you they're so transparent. Like men.
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Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate.
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Role models can inspire. Campaigns can motivate. But if we want all girls everywhere to rise up, then we must find them, befriend them and support them.
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It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
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The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down.
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I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.
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Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.
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The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.
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Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the car and one leg was in the car. He looked at me and told me that I was a drunk and that he was ashamed to call me his son. That night, I stopped drinking and I never drank again; I was twenty four.
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I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward. It showed everyone that you can just sit really quiet with storylines and characters. It can be scary, it can be uncomfortable, it can be weirdly funny.
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Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
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There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.
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We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
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I think right now television is the best that it’s ever been, and I think that it’s the worst that film has ever been.
