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When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
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Philip Seymour Hoffman
Age: 46 †
Born: 1967
Born: July 23
Died: 2014
Died: February 2
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There's nothing risky in talking about your personal life. People do it all the time.
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When you read, you think, and when you smoke, you think. It's a pleasurable thing, and not a duty.
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My soul is in good shape.
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Why you do something is always kind of a mystery to me.
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I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid.
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