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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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 love the anxiety, the pressure of the loud room full of yapping kids. But I'm a kid myself.
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There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
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Sochi will be my third Olympics, and I'm coming into these games in a stronger position than I've been in years past.
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We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.
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Costa Rica, with its tourist-based economy and lack of a national army, has focused on keeping safe its beaches, parks and other public draws. It is one if the safest countries in Central America based on the number of homicides.
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If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people.
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I took Second City out of desperation, and that's what ended up working out. It shows that you should be doing a lot of different stuff, taking whatever opportunities are there, to see what works.
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Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's not good enough.
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The fact is, I never wanted to be a movie star.
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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.
