John Hawkes Quotes

You don't really ever think you're that crazy person you're playing.

John Hawkes

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• I don't like workouts that make you bulky.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • You
  • Like
  • Workouts

• Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Home
  • Running
  • Enjoy

• I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Never
  • Really
  • Stopped

• Not a lot of people would think that I spent most of my early years totally rebelling against anything I could, getting suspended from school, going on demonstrations.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • People
  • School
  • Think

• Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Love
  • Dying
  • For Her

• If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • British
  • Vegetable
  • Potato

• I think there are plenty of Libertarians that are socially conservative.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Think
  • I Think
  • Conservative

• My inherent belief is that motherhood is pious, and I am humbled by it.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Motherhood
  • Pious

• There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Meaningful

• Some people rehearse to a point where they're robotic, and they sound like they have memorized their presentation and didn't take it to the next level. Going from sounding memorized and canned to sounding natural is a lot of work.

  

  Nancy Duarte
  • People
  • Work
  • Sound

• I think that there should be options available, quite early on, that if someone is recognised as a disruptive child, for them to be trained vocationally. Maybe if those kids were given the option to learn how to contribute to society on a practical level they wouldn't get into trouble.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Kids
  • Society
  • Learn

• I'm an aggressive fighter, but I'm smart. I'm not going to play stupid.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Play
  • Stupid
  • Smart

• The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Up
  • Mind
  • May

• So many people have said that to me, that what they really like about Alex is what she brings out in Marissa, and what this situation brings out in her, a hint of happiness and another side to her character.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Character
  • Happiness
  • Side

• We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.

  

  Rand Paul
  • American
  • Government
  • Financial

• When you write fiction, you can sort of invent more but also pack it with emotions that are very pertinent to you. Whereas with nonfiction, you have to be as factual as possible but also hopefully - also bring... emotional relevance to the piece.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • You
  • Emotional
  • Emotions

• Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Black
  • Hurt

• I always had an awful lot going on in my head, always telling myself stories, very vivid imagination.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Myself
  • Always
  • Imagination

• I do talk to myself, just not in a whisper. But I have caught myself sometimes.

  

  Atticus Shaffer

• Let's face it, though, anything that's apt to happen to an appliance like a blender isn't covered by the warranty anyway, so I never send them in. If it breaks, I'll buy a new one. That's the American way.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • American
  • Break
  • Modern

• My parents aren't crazy conservative. They're actually pretty open-minded. But my grandparents are, and where I'm from, East Texas, is the Bible Belt.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Pretty
  • Parents
  • Crazy

• But I'm not crazy about the designers like Prada and Gucci. I hate going into designer stores.

  

  Samantha Mumba
  • Hate
  • Crazy
  • Gucci

• In science, technology, engineering and mathematics, men far outnumber women in the classroom and the boardroom.

  

  Weili Dai
  • Men
  • Women
  • Science

• You don't really ever think you're that crazy person you're playing.

  

  John Hawkes
  • Crazy