Paula Hawkins Quotes
One of the lovely things about writing when nobody knows who you are is there's no expectation.
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I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.
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I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.
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I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.
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Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.
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In the late 1960s, I ended up in Telluride, Colorado. It wasn't like the country club that it is now. It was very raw. Skiing was there, but snowboarders have now entirely overrun it.
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Luckily, I have been offered the chance to play a South American, Hispanic and even a character from the Middle East in films. There are also a lot of TV series in the U.S. that have a strong presence of actors from India.
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Acting was something I had to do.
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Dolphins games always have been among the most popular NFL telecasts in England.
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Meeting Oprah Winfrey, I cried like a baby. Meeting Steven Spielberg, I cried like a baby. Meeting Denzel Washington, I gushed like a crazy woman. If I don't get excited or star struck by someone I've been dying to meet, it's time to retire.
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I am convinced that only by applying the values of an entrepreneur to philanthropy will you ever be able to meet the needs of the greatest number of people.
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In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.
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I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.
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When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about.
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I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.
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I'm proud to have played characters who've inspired people to live out loud, and I'm lucky to have reached an audience that's been incredibly enthusiastic and supportive.
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By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films.
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Writing is frustration - it's daily frustration, not to mention humiliation. It's just like baseball: you fail two-thirds of the time.
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Don't fake enthusiasms. Say what you think, not what you think you ought to think.
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Put your energy into building what is creative, valuable and empowering. And you won't have to constantly fight against what is destructive and draining.
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One of the lovely things about writing when nobody knows who you are is there's no expectation.
