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Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes

The ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the center of attention, the wanting to succeed... They're all inside me somewhere.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Me Ambition Succeed Drive Attention

Alan White and I spent the next two or three years working together on this. We developed what is known a stochastic volatility model. This is a model where the volatility as well as the underlying asset price moves around in an unpredictable way.

Working Together Together White Three

Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise.

Ending End Surprise Garden Find Big

For us, when we think about the Middle Ages, it's sort of this rarefied, distant time that we have no connection to, especially if you grew up in America.

Time Think America You Connection

To be human is to be visible.

I define leadership as: Emotionally, you own your business. You own it with passion. And you either have or you don't have an economic investment. But when you have all three of those, you are the boss from Day One, and you care every single day more than anyone.

Leadership Business Passion Day Boss

I think that if you are a serious writer, you are almost obligated to provide the intelligent average reader with something that they can relate to and care about. If you are writing only for a tiny elite, then that surely should sound alarm bells.

Writing Think Care You Serious

We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.

Michel de Montaigne

Same Germany Title Christians

I'm so boy-crazy. It's like I don't even know what's wrong with me. I love boys.

Love Me Wrong Know Like Even

That's the power of television. You come into people's homes every week, and that creates a familiarity and a false sense of intimacy.

Jason Priestley

Power People Week You Television

People are proud to be from Baltimore. In any industry you work in, you need support to survive. And this city has that support for anyone who was born here or lived here. And it also gives you the feeling, 'Oh, I stand for this place. And if I do something I'm not proud of, I might not make my town proud.' And I want to make Baltimore proud.

Work Support People City Proud You

They make a humongous profit, but the people that work on the shows don't get paid a lot because they're working on the Oscars show. It's the biggest show in the world.

Work People World Profit Paid Get

When I was 10, I knew there was something different about me. Everyone was football-mad, but I just wanted to watch musicals and see art.

Art Me Everyone See Watch Something

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