Reid Hoffman Quotes
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I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.
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I'm a bit of a 'Throny,' as I think the 'Game of Thrones' fans refer to themselves.
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I love Winston Churchill; I think he had the grace of coming and the grace of leaving - when things were hard he was there, and when it was time to leave, he left.
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I think lots of actors are very nervous and shy. I know lots of them who are, and some who aren't of course.
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Throughout his long career, Washington earned the adulation not merely of ordinary people but of the other luminaries whom we now hail as 'founding fathers.'
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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
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There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months.
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Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.
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What other people think of me is none of my business.
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Borderline embarrassing fact: I used to have a pseudo line when I was seven called Zizzy Fashion. I love clothing, and I would eventually like to design as well as act.
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I think everyone in Hollywood works on multiple things because you never know what's going to happen with your projects.
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I can't think of a more pathetic situation for an actor than to do a film and not connect to it. And I pray to God that I never face that situation.
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I used to think the press was a necessary evil and now I don't think it is. I think it's something you choose.
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I think it is very important for all actors to complete their studies side by side.
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It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened, I welcomed new ways of thinking and approaching something. It made me an infinitely richer person, and I think a better musician.
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Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways.
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I used to do a lot of comedy. I don't know what happened. I think it's my face.
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In a city, there's more room to be, where in a small town, you have to squish yourself down a little bit. And it's exciting for me to be pursuing a career where I don't have to be small.
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I follow Elle Fanning's career. I really like to follow actors who are a similar age to me. Just to see what they're up to.
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I worked hard when I was a consultant. I worked hard when I was in graduate school looking at neuroscience. I worked hard as a teacher. But those are completely different career paths. And the lack of direction is why I didn't get far enough in any of those things.
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In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.
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I'm actually an equestrian, and I showed in the American Paint Horse Association and competed for top 20 in the nation.
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Every actor has to make terrible films from time to time, but the trick is never to be terrible in them.
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You need to think and act like you’re running a start-up: your career.
