Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes
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They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows.
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.
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Having been governor of New Mexico, I know that legislation gets passed to benefit those who have money and influence. Then they buy more money and influence. That's one reason why, as governor, I vetoed more than 750 bills and thousands of line items. I did it to keep crony capitalism away from government.
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I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.
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I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.
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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
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I have a ton of videos on MySpace and YouTube.
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I've said some things about other religions that I regret now. I think they were incorrect.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
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You have to stay alert. You've got to keep raising your game.
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But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.
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Coach Graham use to ride me hard . . . 'you're doing it all wrong! Go back! Do it again!' An assistant coach muttered that it was a good thing Coach Graham rode me hard, because 'when you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they've given up on you.'
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You don't win the game if you try to hit home runs all the time.
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I had a hard time at Chelsea mainly because I was injured much of the time. Every time I recovered from one injury I seemed to get a new one and it set me back again.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.
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Plays never feel like the right thing to do at the time.
