Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes
I think you ultimately have to love who you're playing. You have to have that kind of feeling. You have to have passion for the person.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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I had never used the prefix 'Dr.' with my name, but when I started with NASA, I had to. Otherwise, I could not get past the secretaries.
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I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever thought I would do. I could never have imagined the career that I've had with the Foo Fighters - playing stadiums and having songs on the radio. It's amazing, and my goal is really just to carry on playing.
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At the U.N., I routinely encounter countries that do not want to impose sanctions or even to enforce those already on the books. The hard-line sanctions skeptics have their own self-interested reasons for opposing sanctions, but they ground their opposition in claims that America uses sanctions to inflict punishment for punishment's sake.
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The advantage is I have my family with me all the time. When your daughter takes her first steps or says her first words and your son is going through potty training, I'm not missing any of those things.
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Steve Jobs was never going to let Flash on any Apple product again like that after in 1997 - he's got a long memory - they said no and Bill Gates said yes.
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I am a Facebook voyeur. I feel bad about it because I never put anything on there, but I find it fun to sit there and watch peoples' lives go by. Or whatever lives they're presenting.
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I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.
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Whenever anyone calls me 'The new J..K. Rowling,' I think, 'What's wrong with the old one?'
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Our reactor actually burns nuclear waste as fuel. So not only is it safe and powerful, it solves an important issue: It actually reduces nuclear waste instead of creating. It's the reactor of your dreams.
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I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.
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The quarterback is an extension of the coach and has a certain type of swagger mentality, on and off the field.
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A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women.
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I've probably done more than a thousand interviews, and I can't remember what people asked me two months ago or two days ago.
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I am not a politician by nature, but I will say I think there need to be more women in FIFA, and I would be open to having those conversations when the time is right.
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Modeling and pageants help me overcome feeling insecure about the way that I look and my height.
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Ever get the feeling you've been cheated? Good night!
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Last night, ah, yesternight, betwixt her lips and mine There fell thy shadow, Cynara! thy breath was shed Upon my soul between the kisses and the wine; And I was desolate and sick of an old passion, Yea, I was desolate and bowed my head: I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.
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I think you ultimately have to love who you're playing. You have to have that kind of feeling. You have to have passion for the person.
