Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes
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We take the show very seriously, but we don't take ourselves seriously.
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.
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The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
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In some communities, I show up, and they say, 'Well, we haven't seen our Democrat congressman in 10 years.'
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Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.
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I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.
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What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
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Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
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It is up to us to make the right choice and the right decisions.
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In certain European cuisines, vegetables are cooked a long time. I take the term 'al dente' and use it for vegetables.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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I was always very academically focused when I was growing up, and music was something for which I really had no preconceptions or expectations for myself or really any rules. It kind of represented, at least for me, a divergent path of creativity and self-discovery.
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Everything in nature is not just a straight up. It's an S-curve. It arises for a while until it hits some physical limitation, and then it plateaus again.
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Self-esteem comes quietly, like the truth.
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People always accused me of not smiling like my rival Olga Korbut, but that was just my personality. When you're balancing on a nine-inch beam, you have to concentrate. But if you look back at the footage, I was always smiling and waving at the crowd after my performances.
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Only damaged people want good things to happen to them through visualization. They want something for nothing.
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I don't use sex to sell records, obviously, but I'd be lying if I said that I don't feel like I have to make an effort to look good when I go out onstage, to wear something pretty.
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My height can be a problem. A lot of directors and photographers are sometimes not happy because I'm pretty tall and especially if I work with short actors the difference can be pretty massive.
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The size of my head though is pretty abnormal.
