John Hawkes Quotes
It's probably odd for someone to read an interview where the interviewee is worried about exposure while they're talking in an interview.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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I want to help people; that's it.
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I would like to one day play a man. That is something I do know. I don't know what kind of man. I don't know if that would ever happen or not. It would be the ultimate challenge.
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Our idea is to serve everybody, including people with little money.
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I love puppies, and I love animals in general. Besides that, I do martial arts: extreme martial arts. I also play real guitar and drums, and sing. And I'm taking some college classes, hoping to major in English and creative writing.
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I like fashion, but I love, love, love music and film; they are my two passions. I would love to pursue my acting and my love of music more than anything.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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I do think that the audience thinks it's funny when you break, but if you do it all the time, it loses something.
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What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.
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I've been writing for years, you know, and when I get to a particular place, city, or different locale, I find myself first of all being challenged by those that love me to write more.
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Secrets make for good drama, and revealing the hidden truths and contradictions of life is, for me, one of the most exciting aspects of making movies.
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The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgement free.
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There is - I will just say that there was a disastrous day where I discovered really what radioactivity is and that just because you don't see it doesn't mean that it's not everywhere, so - Yeah. I was a slow learner for sure.
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I mean, I think having a great family like I do. You know, I tend to want to give it all I have when I'm at the golf course, and then when I leave I don't want to think about golf at all. And I just remind myself almost daily that golf's just my job, it's not who I am.
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I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.
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I think the term 'fair reporting' is overused when it comes to journalism. I think saying they want to report evenly is more accurate.
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It always feels good to come back here. I love New York... it's just nice to see a lot of familiar faces.
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Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.
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You're either an Olympian or not in swimming.
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For years, I believed that anything worth doing was worth doing early. In graduate school, I submitted my dissertation two years in advance. In college, I wrote my papers weeks early and finished my thesis four months before the due date. My roommates joked that I had a productive form of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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I would never criticize a federal judge, particularly if I had a court case in front of him, but you would certainly never, ever criticize them based on their ethnic background.
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In some way the secret vice exhales its poison; and the evil passion, however cunningly masked, stains through to the surface.
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It's probably odd for someone to read an interview where the interviewee is worried about exposure while they're talking in an interview.
