Maya Hawke Quotes
I'm not super aware of what's the coolest thing and what everybody's doing or listening to or watching at any given time.
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My mom teaches sixth grade and also taught first grade at one point. She's into dressing up and costumes and designing her own curriculum that way. She stayed home for about eight years with me and my sister when we were young before going back to teaching, so we had a lot of time with her. She taught us to read really early.
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I find it quite boring when people do things that are very considered and thought through. I like things best when they're just done because they're fun or beautiful, or simply because they are what that one person wanted to do at that one time.
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For the first time, entrepreneurs can monetize their own open-source and peer-to-peer network. They can crowdfund and raise money from people across the world on the Internet in crypto-currency.
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When it's time to film and to actually take on the role of Precious, I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice.
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I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.
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So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.
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I was in prison with pretty much the who's who of the jihadist and Islamist scene of Egypt at the time, and Egypt was the cradle of Islamism for the world - it's where it began and where jihadism began as well.
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The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time – but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.
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Well, every time I get ready to do a job I want to lose weight.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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The future is keeping you out of the present time.
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I sometimes feel it is to my disadvantage that I have not conducted the Cleveland Orchestra or the Boston or Chicago symphonies, but then I have had to sacrifice something in order to have enough time with my orchestras.
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This has been a trend for a long time; the days of lifetime employment are long since over.
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My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
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For me, if the words are good on the page, the rest of it comes from spending some time with the script, and not like you're learning lines but absorbing what the script has to offer.
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Anything that catches my ear, I'm into. Things that are different, that change what you're listening to.
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Women need to be empowered through the strongest tool - education. They don't need to be subservient to anyone, but at the same time, men must change their mindset towards women. If they are more respectful towards them, then things will change at the grassroots level. It will happen slowly, but everyone has to move together.
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I believe I was ahead of my time.
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Some might say that sunshine follows thunder. Go and tell it to the man who cannot shine. Some might say that we should never ponder. On our thoughts today cos they will sway over time. Some might say they don't believe in heaven. Go and tell it to the man who lives in hellSome might say you get what you've been givenIf you don't get yours I won't get mine as well.
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Risk is the salt and sugar of life.
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To me, there's so much talent in the world that's locked out for the wrong reasons, whether it's innovators at the highest end where we need to change the regulation systems, or whether it's the talented people who work here who the bureaucracy's holding back, or the amazing American people.
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As the years passed in my village, I witnessed poorly educated young men leaving to seek the greater comforts and liberations of big cities. I would see them on my visits to Delhi.
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I have been to a few A-list parties, but not massively. It's not my life, but it's fun dipping into it.
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I'm not super aware of what's the coolest thing and what everybody's doing or listening to or watching at any given time.
