Dustin Hoffman Quotes
Well, 45-odd years of doing it, so we all pile up the things we like about directors and the things we don't like about directors. And sometimes they're very similar.
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I enjoy shopping and going on holiday.
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We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.
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I'm more of a guy's girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don't bicker or sit down and do my nails.
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I used to be the best comic actor in my batch. Everyone knew that my comic timing was impeccable.
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There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.
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The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.
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And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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I love the smell of Burger King when I ride past, but sometimes I have to avoid it.
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For me, the idea of curating can be expanded. Curating science, curating art, music and theater and performance and not only bring those things into art but bring art into those areas.
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It's the same girl-who-has-everything story. You know, the one where she's insecure and scared and unhappy and has marriage problems and doesn't know how to handle stardom and screws up right and left and gets in with the wrong people and goes down the drain.
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I can't speak for boys because I'm not one! But I just imagine they think differently.
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There's a lot of potential that goes unused in places like South Central L.A., a lot of brilliant, smart people who just don't have that chance to show it.
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If I had any humility I would be perfect.
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You must always watch when David Lynch makes anything.
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You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.
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I take the time to look at my videos after a fight to see not what I did right but what I did wrong, to learn from those mistakes.
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Raising a child is an on-the-job kind of thing. There aren't a whole lot of manuals for that.
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I can't even tell you the anxiety I get from being around those cameras!
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There are poets who believe that you shouldn't engage at all in any cause. And there's something to be said for that. Because you don't want to - I think most political poetry is very bad. And it's very bad because you know too much to start with. You have a sense that you're right, and you're trying to tell other people what's right. And I think that's always kind of fundamentalism, and I don't like it.
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It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
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I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.
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You can't use a drawing to prove a war crime. A drawing doesn't have that notion that it's proof of a reality. Because of that, you can do all sorts of interesting things in it.
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Well, 45-odd years of doing it, so we all pile up the things we like about directors and the things we don't like about directors. And sometimes they're very similar.
