John Hawkes Quotes
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On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.
Basmah bint Saud
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My folks were drunks, and I had a rough childhood - really rough - in fact, rougher than I thought about.
Gary Paulsen
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This field is not necessarily glamorous, nor does it often produce immediate results, but it seeks to increase our basic understanding of living processes.
Aaron Klug
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
Forest Whitaker
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I want to play interesting women.
Rachel Weisz
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Energy and bitcoin work really well together because you can pay out in micro-transaction units. As the energy gets used, they pay out, and it's by the kilowatt rather than by the month.
Adam Draper
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I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree.
Ted Shackelford
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To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.
Fernando Pessoa
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You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.
Ed Rendell
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The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.
Adam McKay
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Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
Orson Welles
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Joan Cusack is one of my favorite comedic actresses, and every part she plays is so different. She does the wackiest stuff and somehow it works. I like watching her a lot, and I think you can always go further and pull back. That's something I really have to work on.
Rachel McAdams
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I think when you start analyzing trends and start making shows for a particular audience, you are making a fatal move. I think that's why people are doing too many revivals, that's why there's a plethora of rock musicals. There's room for everything, but not room for too much of anything.
Harold Prince
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To create a work of art is to create the world.
Wassily Kandinsky
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When you're in a relationship with a photographer, and they start abusing that relationship and being like, 'I want you to do this, and I want you to do that,' it makes you go, 'No.' I didn't want to work all the time.
Kate Moss
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When we played with the Rollins Band, we'd keep songs going until we felt like ending it.
Adam Jones
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The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
Baruch Spinoza
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The average worker in 2015 wanting to attain the average living standard in 1915 could do so by working just 17 weeks a year, one third of the time. But most people don't choose to do that. They are willing to work hard to harvest the technological bounty that is available to them. Material abundance has never eliminated perceived scarcity.
David Autor
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After a long time spent learning how to write as a woman instead of as an honorary man, I was able to come back to Earthsea and write the next three books in another and newer tradition: that of questioning, rather than accepting, the gendering of power as male.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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The passive receiving of Christ is the process by which a spiritual principle of grace is generated in the will of man.
William Ames
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I wish my grandmother and grandfather were still alive, because they were able to keep me grounded.
John Mellencamp
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It's hard to get concert tickets.
John Hawkes