Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes
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Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.
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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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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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I sort of went into the TV thing kicking and screaming.
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The very pink of perfection.
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She certainly gave me what I've been losing. Youth's intensity, its craving, the soul-priapism, huge lust and fierce to her, clamour for her to realize with me that mightiest marriage-dream, that Sacrament of Satan that may be consummated only beneath Night's dome, in utmost silence, because its Elements are not symbols of things, but They themselves.
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We need a continuing presence in space.
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The sophist, in contradistinction to the philosopher, is not set in motion and kept in motion by the sting of the awareness of the fundamental difference between conviction or belief and genuine insight.
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At home, I never plate. Things go in the middle of the table, and you serve yourself. In the restaurant, every day I plate things, but at home, I want to enjoy my company.
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Reality is all that which can affect one.
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It never hurts your eyesight to look on the bright side of things.
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I didn't really think in terms of clichés or non-clichés.
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The heart can only be broken / once, like a window.
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I've always felt like I had a personal relationship with fans. I'm not afraid to be emotional or vulnerable or humble.
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I don't have a specific thing I want anyone to get out of anything I do.
