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[Truman Capote] was not only just selling his writing, but he was selling himself as a person.
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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Philip Hoffman
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The weight comes off, you know? If you stop with the bread and the pie, it really does. It really works.
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You have all the influence you choose to have.
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I think you gotta have an honesty and a humility about human nature and that it's not about you at the end of the day.
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I always thought I'd be a New York theater actor, riding my bicycle to rehearsal. That was all I ever wanted.
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There's things that you don't want to do and they keep haunting you and following you. Bennett Miller directed this project [Capote], who is a friend of mine since I was 16, and Danny Futterman wrote it, and he's also been a friend of mine since I was 16.
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I don't get nervous when I'm directing a play. It's not like acting.
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My mum's name is Marilyn O'Connor. She's here tonight and I would like if you see her for you to congratulate her because she brought up four kids alone and she deserves congratulations for that.
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If all people are encouraged to actually see who they're coexisting with, or even if they're not coexisting with other people.It's like to look at the world you're in.
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