Nicholas von Hoffman Quotes
What the computer can do in art and design has turned aesthetics on its head... with the computer, things are not so much created as they are produced, with the producer-director becoming the star and the controlling force of much that was in other hands at other times.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.
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If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
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Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
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Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.
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When I get real excited, my muscles go into spasm, so they just shake.
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I like to stay home with my family.
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I did not think I would be able to do myself justice if I had to speak to the players in English. I would not be able to get my emotions and feelings across.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.
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I think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits and which is profitable and offers low prices.
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If the part isn't always there on the page, I've had good relationships with writers where there's an openness to bring more to the role.
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I've been called everything. Gangsta rap. I've been called conscious rap. You know, everything. Whoever feels like calling it whatever they want to call it, that's on them.
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We don't live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that.
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Tell Père Tanguy to send me some paints. What I need most are ten tubes of white, two of chrome yellow, one bright red, one brown lac, one ultramarine, five Veronese green, one cobalt j I have on hand only one tube of white ... I expect to begin to paint again from nature, and I need the colors.
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I found acting tough; it takes a lot out of you if you have no technique.
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I think people have surgery for psychological reasons more than because of their looks.
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One wants to think that - and this is really a stupid thought - that through your art or whatever you do as an actor you can actually affect someone else's lives and thoughts or whatever.
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Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.
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The ring at the end of my nose makes me look rather pretty.
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What the computer can do in art and design has turned aesthetics on its head... with the computer, things are not so much created as they are produced, with the producer-director becoming the star and the controlling force of much that was in other hands at other times.
