Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes
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It's those damn critics again.
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I always played to win.
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There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
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I have never once dribbled the whole field and scored a goal by myself.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
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I am actually one of those who took President Obama at his word when he first ran - that he would get us out of ill-advised wars, that he would do something about health care costs, and that he would protect civil liberties. Like many Americans, I was disappointed.
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You lay out a plan and - say a three-year plan or a two-year plan - and say, 'This is what we can do. We can do the transportation packages, like the highway bill and the water bill, and we can do some of these other areas - a farm bill - whatever it is, we lay out a schedule, and we put that committee to work to do that.'
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I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.
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I can tell you that as a writer and as a reader, I regard character as king. Or queen. No matter how riveting the action or interesting the plot twists, if I don't feel like I'm meeting someone who feels real, I'm not going to be compelled to read further.
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I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.
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Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.
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I do comedy at a lot of colleges, and at the end of those shows, I take time to be a little more real with audiences. I try to inspire them to follow their dreams. When I was that age, it was incredible to hear stuff like that.
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The woman with dark hair, wide hips, and a few extra pounds has always been the essence of beauty in Morocco.
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I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot by doing so little.
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Some movies to me are like vampires – they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like that. I like to give the audience energy if I can.
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Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth.
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Natural law. Sons are put on this earth to trouble their fathers.
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I pray and meditate first thing in the morning.
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Now the sun touched the horizon and the man reined in his horse tiredly, glad that the time for prayer had come.
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I had a father who was a traveling salesman.
