#kin

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#failure #forms #lands #new #often

Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#being #kind #kindness #made #motive

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#earmarks #fugitive #most #ourselves #passionate

Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#about #always #children #feel #find

The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#before #bodies #came #castle #confronted

They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#bought #cheap #combined #folk #i

I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in. ↗

— Dustin Hoffman

#been #book #bought #did #direct

Yes, Jean Monnet was the father of the concept of a United States of Europe and his efforts more than those of any other single man helped change the thinking of European leaders. ↗

— Paul Hoffman

#change #concept #efforts #europe #european

Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you're helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#amazing #amazing thing #because #directing #helping

Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#documentary #even #fiction #films #kind