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" To be fair to my dad, he is one of the brightest men I've ever met. "
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Men
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" The idea that you have a vision of what you're supposed to be, or going to be, or where your kids are going to be - and that that doesn't work out - is always going to be something that's going to affect people and move people. "
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