Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes
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Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
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You should never ask, 'What would the readers like now?' Instead, you should ask, 'What would I like if I was a reader?' And then you must trust your own mind.
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It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.
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My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
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I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.
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I began photographing in 1946. Before that, I was a painter and drawer, with my mother and father's support. They were a bit pissed when I went into photography. They thought photographers were guys who took pictures at weddings.
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Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.
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It is hard to say no to PSG - as with all teams capable of winning the Champions League, There is always uncertainty in football.
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Investment in training is a huge necessity for knowledge-based corporations.
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Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.
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My mother always worked and thought staying at home was a bit twee, and that you should get your act together and do something useful. Now I think that's the most useful thing you can do: bring up some non-criminals.
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Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups.
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I find the aristocratic parts of London so unattractive and angular; the architecture is so white and gated. But in New York, it's different - even uptown it's really grand, and there's no real segregation there. It's all mixed up.
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I am a very spiritual person and love travelling to religious places. I go to the Golden Temple, Tirupati Balaji and Vaishno Devi every year.
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You often see in Washington those who disagree you described as stupid or evil. It's one of the most unfortunate trends of modern political discourse. Portraying opponents as too dumb to know the truth but smart enough and wanting people to suffer.
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I started doing impressions of Steve Urkel and Ed Grimley as my way of getting through the fear of rejection.
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I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.
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Almost every girl falls in love with the wrong man, I suppose it's part of growing up.
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Take a simple name like Nicholas: you can rhyme it with ridiculous. If you aren't too meticulous. You know, every word's rhymable.
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I will never fully understand; that is the nature of such creatures. Or is this Inner Truth now, this that is happening to me? I will wait. I will see. Which it is. Perhaps it is both.
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When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack.
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Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.
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The best writing advice I ever got was "Keep moving forward, don't retreat into rewrites." The worst came from a book that said "Writing fiction is like telling lies," which just seems stupid to me.
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Well, I think everyone struggles with self-love.
