Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes
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Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always going to be kids making music. There's always going to be kids in bands.
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Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.
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My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way.
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Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.
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The Marine Corps is some of the best acting training you could have. Having that responsibility for people's lives, suddenly time becomes a really valuable commodity and you want to make the most of it. And for acting, you just have to do the work, just keep doing it.
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If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.
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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!
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I like Los Angeles. So many artistic people, and I just love the weather.
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Tell your mother that any clothes she wants to purchase you as a gift has to be suitable for a job interview.
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On the one hand, she is cut off from the protection awarded to her sisters abroad; on the other, she has no such power to defend her interests at the polls, as is the heritage of her brothers at home.
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The beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it.
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Yet did that Antiochus, who was also called Dionysius, become an origin of troubles again.
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I'd never want to be trapped. I never like to stay in one place too long. I always flit around, I never settle anywhere. So being married would be being trapped.
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Everybody has that thing about them that makes them special, and sometimes we try to dull it down or we don't always want to expose it, and maybe we've been taught that way or whatever. It's just a matter of letting it out and letting it go and letting people in on it.
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As much as most of the actors were kind of curious to know what their character meant in relation to the script and to the plot, they really were quite happy to be part of the adventure of not knowing.
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In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo.
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I sort of went into the TV thing kicking and screaming.
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The very pink of perfection.
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I finished my high school. I think an educate is very, very important.
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Some documentaries are made by people who are driven more by one particular story, or have different backgrounds or ambitions, but I'm always looking for projects that let me be the best filmmaker I can be, and to be stretched and grow further.
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I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.
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When all is said and done, science is about things and theology is about words. Things behave in the same way everywhere, but words do not. ... Theology works in one culture alone. If you have not grown up in Polkinghorne's culture, where words such as 'incarnation' and 'trinity' have a profound meaning, you cannot share his vision.
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I don't have a specific thing I want anyone to get out of anything I do.
