Maya Hawke Quotes
I was diagnosed with dyslexia in third grade and had gone to a special school for it and then left the school. I'd learned to read and write, but it was still a real struggle for me, as it is to this day.
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No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.
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If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.
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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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There was Pauline de Rothschild, who I thought was very fabulous, and Millicent Rogers, the Standard Oil heiress, very chic, very clever, very original. I admired both those women very much. And I had a great example with my mother, who was extremely chic.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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There are films like 'Interstellar' where you cannot replicate the experience of seeing it in IMAX - it's an amazing film presented in a spectacular way. It really is an experience, like going to Disneyland, and you can't replicate that by watching home videos of going to Disneyland.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.
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I might be afraid of ghosts and like dragons and those things, but I'm not afraid of the Taliban.
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Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.
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Controversial means somebody who makes people think. And if you are afraid of people who will be against you, you might as well stay home and do nothing.
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People want a grounded government. They want a government that's going to be responsible to them.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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When I was in a band after high school and in college, I didn't even play the guitar. I played the bass because I couldn't play lead, and I didn't have the gear.
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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
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I was diagnosed with dyslexia in third grade and had gone to a special school for it and then left the school. I'd learned to read and write, but it was still a real struggle for me, as it is to this day.
