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Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes

There's nothing risky in talking about your personal life. People do it all the time.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Time People Talking Personal

With 'Survivor' - I didn't get any sleep, there was no food, we had to boil our water... plus, it was physically taxing during the day. That's what made it more difficult than three-a-day practices.

Water Food Day Sleep Survivor More

You just have to speak up. You just have to say, 'I would like to do this,' and it's amazing what people who listen can do for you.

People Amazing Speak You Say Listen

You don't have to be a religious person to be affected by religion or a religious movement.

Religion You Person Movement

The B Team can catalyse initiatives.

Team Initiatives

My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and my mother had a different one, and I was very aware of those things. I continue to wonder about it, and I will continue to write about it.

Life Marriage Father Mother Parents

I have to say that it was working with my grandpa, who grew up on a farm in Mountain Home, Idaho, that had the most influence. Witnessing his work ethic and hearing his stories gave me an appreciation for the farm's best lessons.

Work Home Best Mountain Appreciation

Growing up, it was uncool to admit that your family had any money. And then, instantly, money was cool. In Reagan's parlance, it was about freedom of the individual, which was freedom to be greedy... individual versus society. There was a weird seduction in that, which I still feel.

John Cameron Mitchell

Family Freedom Money Cool Growing Up

Every day I went to the ballpark in Yankee Stadium as well as on the road people were on my back. The last six years in the American League were mental hell for me. I was drained of all my desire to play baseball.

Day Baseball People Me Road Hell

In high school, I worked at Abercrombie & Fitch, and once I graduated from business school at USC, I started a company with my partner and had a nine-to-seven job.

Business Job School High School High

We're all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives, we do so by gradually altering those habits, which is to say the networks of our memory. No lasting joke, or invention, or insight, or work of art was ever produced by an external memory. Not yet, at least.

Work Memories Art Memory Control

Justified or not, the Supreme Court has a kind of sacred status in American life. For whatever reason, Presidents can safely run against Congress, and vice versa, but I think there is an inherent popular aversion to assaults on the court itself. Perhaps it has to do with an instinctive belief that life needs umpires.

Life Think American Kind Run Belief

Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

History House White Matters Audience

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