John Hawkes Quotes
When you're just starting out, and someone you think is a real storyteller says something good about you, that helps.
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After 'Sesame Street,' it's a hyper-familiar world to me and I have this childlike ability to ignore the fact that I'm talking to scraps of cloth. Every country I go to, I see posters promoting the film in different languages. 'Los Muppets' - I love that!
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It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.
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If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
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I've matured since joining United, on and off the field.
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I'm a total people pleaser.
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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I was so ashamed of who I was.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.
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The effort of every time I put out a video, it was like, 'Okay, I've got to put it on my Facebook, I've got to put it on my website, what's the view count now? What's the view count now? What's the view count now?' You get obsessive with it.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
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We can't go all over the world killing people because we disagree with them.
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The prime goal of an author is the same as a musician, which is to emotionally connect with the reader in some way or another.
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The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.
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Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
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Being a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do.
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When you're just starting out, and someone you think is a real storyteller says something good about you, that helps.
