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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The cool thing about my show and me is that I'm a writer, and I'm a writer first if I don't have music.
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It is difficult for the matter-of-fact physicist to accept the view that the substratum of everything is of mental character. But no one can deny that mind is the first and most direct thing in our experience, and all else is remote inference - inference either intuitive or deliberate.
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To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.
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A successful marriage isn't necessarily one that lasts until you're dead.
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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.
