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.
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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.
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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.
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The promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest.
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I don't want to become known as just a body.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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If you look at 'West Side Story,' a lot of those numbers are actually pretty cutty, but the cuts are always musically motivated.
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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.
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I love hugging people. I still hug everybody in my meet-and-greet lines.
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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.
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I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.
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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.
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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.
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Strong families are vital to strong societies.
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Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.
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The books I like to read the most feel like they've been written by somebody who had to write them or go crazy. They had to get them out of their heads. I like that kind of urgency.
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My idea of artistry has always been 'try everything until you find out what works.'
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Throughout my career, I was never able to relax; I always had to go on the field with another responsibility. I felt like I was playing, not just for my team, but for my race.
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I never worry that I'll die in my sleep, because I'm never asleep!
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Kill Rock Stars has a willingness to really work with the artist and to be flexible with what they're doing... part of being an independent artists means having your hands in the business all the time, so they bring in a lot of ideas about it.
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Acting can be a great job, but you do have to make up things to do when you're not working.
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Illegal drug use runs contrary to the image of health depicted by cycling. Distributors of these drugs must be prosecuted more harshly as they are ciminals.
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I think the most beautiful sound is a child laughing.
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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.
