John C. Hawkes Quotes
I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then.
Quotes to Explore
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I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.
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The first song I wrote was called 'Here I Go Falling In Love' I wrote it in the sixth grade.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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TV's been good to me.
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The very best testament to the validity of the Warren Commission's findings is that after an unrelenting, close to forty-five-year effort, the Commission's fiercest critics have not been able to produce any new credible evidence that would in any way justify a different conclusion.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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You have to open up on stage.
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You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.
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When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
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And then the really awful thing is that at the end of the day after crying and experiencing things, then you look at what you've written and you're like, 'Hmm, there's half a page that's good here.' Then you throw out everything else.
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I like to dress up every now and then.
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This is what I tell my students: step outside of your tiny little world. Step inside of the tiny little world of somebody else. And then do it again and do it again and do it again. And suddenly, all these tiny little worlds, they come together in this complex web. And they build a big, complex world.
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In the past, I'd sort of know before Ozzy sang something, what he was going to sing. I'd know what sort of way a melody was going to go 'cause of the way he'd approach it.
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I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then.
