John Hawkes Quotes
I think that no matter how dark a person is, the more you learn about them, the more you understand about their life, the more you can sympathize with them or even root for them.
Quotes to Explore
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
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You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.
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I don't eat any red meat.
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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.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
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An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.
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In some ways I was curt because there's an unbelievable amount to accomplish in a day.
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Whenever I did sitcoms, that always happened on your show. Once the show was on the air, it takes on a life of its own. It develops, and it becomes something else.
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I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.
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That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.
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I think that no matter how dark a person is, the more you learn about them, the more you understand about their life, the more you can sympathize with them or even root for them.
