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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.
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Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness.
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I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it's what I live for.
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The work I've done through my Common Culture Music series has enabled me not only to share my joy of music at scale but also promote the artists I love.
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The two oldest professions in the world - ruined by amateurs.
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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.
