Maya Hawke Quotes
One thing I've learned from my parents and from observing all the artists I've been lucky enough to grow up around is that you've got to be brave.
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.
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My mornings go by so fast I forget breakfast. Lunch - that's turned out to be my biggest meal. I like tuna fish with low-fat mayonnaise and celery, egg whites and garlic. It's delish.
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When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.
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I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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Every university in America teaches 'Clockwork Orange.' I get fed up with it.
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The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.
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My dresses are for women of all different shapes and sizes. Actually, the one I tried on yesterday was the one Jennifer wore. And who'd have thought I'd be the same size as Jennifer Lopez!
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I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.
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The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.
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The United States is going to be a rich country, it is going to be prosperous, but it is not going to be able to take the lead in the next phase of global economic development.
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I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!
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You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.
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I don't let anything kill my spirit.
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I love the anxiety, the pressure of the loud room full of yapping kids. But I'm a kid myself.
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I was a comic book nut and grew up on 'Star Wars' and 'Indiana Jones.'
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You got to be brave. If you feel something, you've really got to risk it.
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The most important movement in the world is the feminist movement. If we can really figure out what's going on between men and women, the other problems will take care of themselves. I'm sure of it.
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I got my first laptop, what I learned to do everything on, when I was 17 or 18, and I had no idea what I was doing. I'd only ever produced on an 8-track before. When I was about 13 and writing songs, I would write on that. It would literally be eight tracks, and that's all I had.
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[On the movie "American Hot Wax:] A plot so thin you could thread a needle with it.
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One thing I've learned from my parents and from observing all the artists I've been lucky enough to grow up around is that you've got to be brave.
