Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes

Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you're helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself.

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• Comedy's really subjective, you know; that's why it's so hard.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Why
  • Know
  • Comedy

• Obviously it makes a difference if an author has a public online profile of some sort, even just down to the level of having a moderately popular blog. Most books sell 5, 10, or 15 thousand copies. Most are midlist books. With those people, even a modest online presence can make a difference in sales.

  

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden
  • People
  • Popular
  • Author

• A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Book
  • Man
  • Talent

• There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Long
  • Memories
  • Enough

• Leonard Cohen has a way with words and with humor that remind me to lighten up, which I appreciate very much.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Words
  • Way
  • Humor

• The promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Family
  • Stability
  • Promotion

• I don't want to become known as just a body.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Want
  • Body
  • Just

• What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • World
  • Important
  • Love

• If you look at 'West Side Story,' a lot of those numbers are actually pretty cutty, but the cuts are always musically motivated.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Pretty
  • Story
  • Look

• Human beings are natural mimickers. The more you're conscious of the other side's posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more you subtly reflect those back - the more accurate you'll be at taking their perspective.

  

  Dan Pink
  • Choices
  • Human
  • Perspective

• I love hugging people. I still hug everybody in my meet-and-greet lines.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Meet
  • Hug

• I don't have a big career plan. I just like to see how things come out, and I just try to keep going in different directions.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Different
  • Career
  • Try

• Many of my songs were dance orientated from way back. That's because I love dance! When I hear a dance number, just hearing the first eight bars, it immediately makes my bod start moving and dancing.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Way
  • Dance
  • Songs

• I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Music
  • Marriage
  • Picture

• When I started off in music, I started with a real innocence, a real love for the instrument, the writing the songs, the playing the songs and the sharing and the recording and experimenting. It was exciting. Then, this thing called success came, and something happened at some point where I became disenchanted, and I lost the innocence.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Real

• I really love all types of music. I'm really open to that. I really love Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake and some James Taylor and Elton John stuff.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Music
  • Love
  • Open

• Strong families are vital to strong societies.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Strong
  • Families
  • VItal

• Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Work
  • Body
  • Temptation

• I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Character
  • Performance
  • Interested

• I got this book called 'How to Write the Popular Song.' I read that and went through all the things they suggested, and I learned how to do it.

  

  Leon Russell
  • Book
  • Song
  • Popular

• You see people who are 19 or 20 years old and they don't even know who The Who is. It's like, where have you been? Justin Timberlake? C'mon. Where are the roots?

  

  Dustin Diamond
  • People

• It can not be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ!

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Great
  • God
  • Education

• Because of a jury-rigged and outdated system meant to track deaths, the government has trouble determining exactly which Americans are deceased.

  

  David Fahrenthold

• Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you're helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself.

  

  Philip Seymour Hoffman
  • Amazing
  • Worry