Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes
When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.
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Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.
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I needed an opportunity to get back in the studio and get my recording chops back together.
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It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
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Acting is in your soul.
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When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
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Naturalization is the process by which a citizen, or subject of a foreign nation or kingdom, is made a citizen of the United States. It is evident that the Constitutional Convention thought that it was important that this process should be placed under the exclusive control of the Federal Government and not of the States.
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Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit of a history regarding Pakistan.
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A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.
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All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.
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Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
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You can't tag me as a regional actress.
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The next time you're driving from New York to Boston on I-95, you should make a little detour in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, to visit the Old Slater Mill national historic landmark. It's the site of what is considered to be the first successful water-powered textile spinning mill in America.
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In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
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You have to know what club you are playing for, or you just play for yourself. Every time I put on a Liverpool shirt, I know it is more than just a football game.
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I do get recognized, more and more every day.
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Harvard was also a little bit of a villain in my first book, 'The Dante Club.' I guess there might be a way to make Harvard more of a sympathetic presence, but it's such a powerful institution that it more naturally lends itself toward not necessarily a negative but an obstructionist element in a story.
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I've learned... That when your newly born grandchild holds your little finger in his little fist, that you're hooked for life.
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Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly.
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One of my earliest memories is seeing the bright blue, Epic 45 of Jackie Wilson singing 'Higher and Higher,' and I'd say, 'That one!' and my parents would play it every Sunday afternoon and we'd all get up and leap around the house.
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We were very rich culturally. One Sunday each month, we would do this thing called Chamber Pots at somebody's house. A classical music group would come over and we'd have dinner. There were thirty people - parents and kids - and we'd sit on the floor and listen to this beautiful music.
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When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.
