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" In life, do you ever really know if you're missing an opportunity? No, you really don't. "

Philip Seymour Hoffman

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" You know the circus performer who spins the plates in the air you know, and he'll spin six or seven plates in the air? Acting sometimes is kind of that guy spinning all those plates in the air but in your head and in your body. "

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