John C. Hawkes Quotes

On the night before we were married, all of the anxiety in the world came down upon me.

John C. Hawkes

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• The single most powerful element of youth is our inability to know what's impossible.

  

  Adam Braun
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  • Impossible

• People take things so seriously.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • People
  • Things
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• If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Kids
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• Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Girl
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• Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird. And the beauty of music is you can express all those different feelings in all the different songs you write. And hopefully, people can identify with those.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • School
  • Pretty
  • Hair

• It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • World
  • Great
  • Broken

• I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Work
  • Athlete

• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
  • See

• Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Live
  • Character

• I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • Believe
  • Political
  • Independence

• Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Star

• I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Air
  • Streets
  • Hot

• 'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have - 'What's going to happen to your child if you're not around?'

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Parents
  • Fear
  • Road

• There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • World
  • America
  • Crisis

• We benefit tremendously from the E.U. Britain does very well in getting back E.U. money for the amount it puts in.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Money
  • Back
  • Well

• Well, I think again, the worst part of it was just leading up to it, before we got on set, at least for me... dreading this idea that I was just going to suck and I really had strong feelings about that. I just didn't want to be that weak link.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Think
  • Want
  • Strong

• I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Son
  • Existence
  • Wealth

• Besides being a prime cause of poor economic growth, poor governance breeds corruption, which cripples investment, wastes resources, and diminishes confidence.

  

  Ahmed Zewail
  • Confidence
  • Growth

• Thanks to 'A Prophet,' I'm known in a lot of countries.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Thanks
  • Countries
  • Prophet

• We're trying to tell a very full story of 'Nashville' and these characters in Nashville, and I'm really hopeful that we're going to be able to do something as innovative as 'American Horror Story' and 'Friday Night Lights.' And I think so far, we're on the right path for that.

  

  Connie Britton
  • Trying
  • American
  • Night

• The experience of being a young, blonde, naive but well-intentioned young producer was both intimidating and eye-opening.

  

  Clarissa Ward
  • Experience
  • Blonde

• Once upon a time people talked about the infallibility of the pope; today it is that of the merchant which they wish to establish.

  

  Charles Fourier
  • People
  • Time
  • Today

• On the night before we were married, all of the anxiety in the world came down upon me.

  

  John C. Hawkes
  • World
  • Night
  • Anxiety