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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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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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
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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'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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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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Oὐ γὰρ δοκεῖν ἄριστος, ἀλλ᾽ εἶναι θέλει
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I think China is in a chaos now and it could be more chaos. It’s an orderly chaos. It’s a party that ruthlessly violates every human’s basic rights to serve its own purpose.'
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'Didn’t you ever see a cat before?''Of course I did,' said the boy. 'Hundreds of them. But just because you’ve seen something, it doesn’t mean you stop looking. There’s always something you didn’t see before.'
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First novels tend to be blood-lettings, and they're focused on you, not the reader.
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I'd consider myself a flailing comedy writer.
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I think the story is important in every business. Why do you exist, why are you here, why is your product different, why should I pay attention, why should I care?
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At one point, I even thought, 'Oh, I'll take diet pills.' I tried it for one day, and I thought my heart was going to explode. It's awful, and I would never, ever recommend it.
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To me, it's a different kind of voter suppression to constantly try to make people feel like the election is over before it's even begun.
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Nick Swardson used to have birthday paint parties. They were phenomenal.
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I always rise to the occasion for that big bet.
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Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions.
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I don't think women hold all the answers, but with their skills, their strengths, we can get to a better place.
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The sense of endings as well as beginnings in the air is now so obvious in so many dimensions of our experience that a critical mass has been reached.
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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.
