John Hawkes Quotes
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I don't like workouts that make you bulky.
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Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
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I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.
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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.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.
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I think there are plenty of Libertarians that are socially conservative.
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My inherent belief is that motherhood is pious, and I am humbled by it.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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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.
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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.
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I'm an aggressive fighter, but I'm smart. I'm not going to play stupid.
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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.
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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.
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We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.
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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.
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Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
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I'll make the right decision, whichever one it is. I have to be 100 percent, not 95 or 99.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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I've always been a very harsh judge of talent because if you don't play the game on both ends of the court, and if you don't play hard every night, I'm probably not going to be in love with you as a player. I'm going to respect you because you're good, but these players are unique.
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What we love about working at Marvel is they'll have a crazy opening for a movie like 'The Avengers' - like, a record-breaking all-time opening - and you get to the office on Monday, and they don't even have a pizza; it's back-to-work time.
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When Philip Glass asked me if I would be interested in doing a new recording of Jesus' Blood he assumed that I would do something similar to the first version and wanted to know what other pieces would be on the same CD.
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You don't really ever think you're that crazy person you're playing.
