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Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes

Creating anything is hard.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: July 23, 1967 - February 2, 2014

Topics

Creating Hard Anything

We have to reverse spending trends that are not job-creating.

Trends Reverse Spending

Movies may be as close to a document of our national culture as there is; they're supposed to represent what we believe ourselves to be. So when you don't see yourself at all - or see yourself erased - that hurts.

Culture Yourself Believe You Movies

Throughout the 1990s, Israel and the United States devoted vast resources to weakening the nuclear links between Russia and Iran and applied enormous diplomatic pressure on Russia to cut off the relationship.

Relationship Pressure Resources Cut

Once upon a time, my mother lived in the posh downtown of Homs, Syria. She described my grandfather as a king in a storybook, atop a horse, wearing a didashah and pointing a long arm.

Mother Time King Horse Long She

Get the shading right, the lighting right, and there are things you can do to make the CGI look more real. People end up going crazy and give themselves a little too much freedom in how they use CGI, and if you overuse it, it draws attention to itself.

Freedom People Crazy End You Look

Fame was a mixed blessing for me because I thought I could be as big as I wanted to be, and then I realized that I couldn't because of the racist element in the record business.

Business Blessing Me Thought Fame

Whatever I'm going to be doing, a lot of it will be furthering this heritage, this legacy.

Legacy Doing Heritage Will Whatever

I love travelling, and most scripts have been written while I have been travelling.

Love Been Most Travelling I Love

Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.

Moment Ignorance Curiosity You Seize

As to gods, I have no way of knowing either that they exist or do not exist, or what they are like.

Way Knowing Exist Like Gods Either

The humanitarian ecosystem is diverse - not only is there a variety of traditional humanitarian actors, but the system should also embrace an increasing diversity of private sector actors.

Diversity Embrace System Variety

The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Test Minds Corner Pass Found Root

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