John C. Hawkes Quotes

To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.

John C. Hawkes

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• Ocean

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• I've always wanted to be able to hold my breath for like, ever, and swim in the water like a fish.

  

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• I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.

  

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• I was so scared of the water when I was little. I used to grab onto Mum's hand to get out of the pool. I did not even want to shower.

  

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• I grew up being scared of the water, which is embarrassing to say as an Australian, but it's true.

  

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• I try to do things that make me feel good. I go to yoga classes, drink a lot of water, eat healthily and keep things like alcohol and coffee to weekends. I don't overdo anything.

  

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• Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.

  

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• Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet. There is so much life underneath the water that we don't know about. I would love to check out the bottom of the ocean to see what's going on down there.

  

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• People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved.

  

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• A major attack on our cyber systems could shut down our critical infrastructure - financial systems, communications systems, electric grids, power plants, water treatment centers, transportation systems and refineries - that allows us to run our economy and protect the safety of Americans.

  

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• I am a self-taught water skier and wind surfer.

  

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• And all the time he was enjoying his badness, hugging it to him as though it were a friend, and not caring a bit.

  

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• I wish that person outside would stop coughing.

  

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• I maintain that if you're a novelist and you go into an art museum, you'll come out a better novelist. And if you paint a picture for an hour you're a better actor at the end of it.

  

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• To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.

  

  John C. Hawkes
  • Water
  • Ocean