Nicholas von Hoffman Quotes
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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You never know when your future wife might be in the stands.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.
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National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
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I've had a few ditty hits.
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Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.
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I prefer to underplay scenes rather than, you know, be big and drive them. And sometimes you have to do that, but I like the more natural styles.
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
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When I was 11 years old, I was a member of 'Press Pack,' which was a thing that would come out in 'The Sunday Times' in England. You'd write articles and send them off and would get a badge saying 'Official Press.' I was really excited about my badge.
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I live my life day by day, and that's how I continue to live it.
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Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
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Good style - regardless of fads - means the thing that suits your body.
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'Analyze This' is a good movie because Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal are really good. But without the material to put on the play, of course, they couldn't be good. For me, it starts with the writing. I always think that the writer is doing the vast majority of the director's work, in a sense.
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He couldn't see a belt without hitting below it.
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If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.
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Outside Adelaide, Australia: '...they showed us some of the native aborigines at a wayside station in the great plain yesterday afternoon though they are the most revolting form of living creatures I've ever seen !! They are the lowest known form of human beings & are the nearest thing to monkeys I've ever seen' (11 July 1920)
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Your email inbox is a bit like a Las Vegas roulette machine. You know, you just check it and check it, and every once in a while there's some juicy little tidbit of reward, like the three quarters that pop down on a one-armed bandit. And that keeps you coming back for more.
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Doing 'Hedwig' was so hard that I kind of burned out on acting.
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I love to shop at BCBG, because it's classy and elegant but a little bit sexy. It fits who I am in one store.
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I auditioned for Roosevelt in 'The Winds of War,' but Ralph Bellamy got the role.
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We are the people are parents warned us against.
