John C. Hawkes Quotes
I had to go to Sunday school once or twice in my life, and that's where I commented someplace on hearing.
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When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The narcotic of it was so intense - it was pleasurable. I was like, 'You sound like a band.' Then I ended up spending the rest of my life trying to chase that initial high again.
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I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
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You gotta have life your way. If you ain't losing your mind, you ain't partying right.
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I was in high school, and when you get to be 14, 15, you start to feel a little more like your own person so that you can assert your adulthood a little bit.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.
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I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.
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I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.
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I never wanted to be a director. I came into this industry by the little door, so I never learned anything; I never went to school. Actors will tell you I'm very precise. I just have the intuition of doing things.
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There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.
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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.
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All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.
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Recreating the experience of, say, bereavement in my own head is pretty rough. I was used to switching off from emotions every day of my working life as a journalist, but in fiction, you have to feel it 100%, or else it's a flat experience for the reader.
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It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.
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I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe.
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I wasn't some weird loner in school, but I definitely wasn't invited to any of the cool parties.
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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting.
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I think that the presidency really brings out the best in a lot of people.
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Because I could dance, my folks went through hell so I could be in movies. But I didn't dance in pictures. I cried! At one point I had polio, which I believe was a result of the stress I felt in the studios.
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I get super bored playing bland, normal girls.
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I had to go to Sunday school once or twice in my life, and that's where I commented someplace on hearing.
