Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes
The ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the center of attention, the wanting to succeed... They're all inside me somewhere.

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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
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My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.
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Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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I like to go to Africa purely with something to do. I'm not very comfortable getting into an armor-plated Land Rover and going to see things, with my hand gel, you know, it's not me at all. So I like to hang out and you know, really get to know people and try and do something that resonates with them.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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When we say a show is successful, it's because, relative to the investment, it's successful, relative to how else we would have spent that money on licensing something else, does this creation - did it attract the audience that it was built for.
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Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.
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I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.
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I hoped to win a medal and hoped it would be gold. I knew I was good but didn't know I would be the one to score something that had never been done before.
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Our founders said that everybody mattered, everybody counted. But we all know that they didn't count everybody at the beginning. They did somehow have confidence that each generation of Americans would do a better job with it and would bring more and more people in from the margins and into the heart and soul of our democracy.
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I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
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I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore.
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Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
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Any good defensive team has a strong anchor, because he cleans up mistakes.
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Citizens who take it upon themselves to do unusual actions which attract the attention of the police should be careful to bring these actions into one of the recognized categories of crimes and offences, for it is intolerable that the police should be put to the pains of inventing reasons for finding them undesirable.
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I'm an attention freak. I want all the women in the world, and if I don't get them, I fall to the ground and start kicking my feet.
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I think maybe my attention span is too long to tweet.
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The ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the center of attention, the wanting to succeed... They're all inside me somewhere.