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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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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A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough that it may have played a part in their becoming scientists or at some later date just because they liked the ideas.
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The best part of being on your own is not really having to answer to anybody. Not that when you're in a relationship you should really have to answer to somebody then, either. Just the freedom of not checking in with someone all the time is nice.
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There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate. —MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE
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You don't want to stand too close to a robot arm; it can turn your head to mush.
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I don't like rules of any kind. And I seek people who break rules with happiness - and not bringing pain to themselves.
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I don't have a specific thing I want anyone to get out of anything I do.
