John Hawkes Quotes
'The New York Times' thing... I think any actor would be thrilled to be profiled in that paper.
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Be it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you.
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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Everybody's had their differences with President Trump. He's a polarizing president, but I think a majority of the people like what he's doing.
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I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
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There have been periods of my life when I was heavier, like right after high school I definitely gained that freshman 15. It was tough to lose. Ever since then, I know that I can gain weight, so I try to be careful.
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In a lot of movies, you'll see people on crazy dates, and you're like, 'No one would ever do that!'
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I want to cause a change with my life, make the world a little better.
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I do seem to have a lot of family secrets in my novels. I guess I'm one of those writers who is often writing about the same sort of themes, but taking different angles on them.
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The censors have always had a field day with James Joyce, specifically with 'Ulysses,' but also with his other writings. The conventional wisdom is that this is because of sexually explicit passages (and there certainly are those). I have always thought that what the critics hated and feared about Joyce is his cry for human freedom.
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We want a money that some government mandarin can't just whisk into existence with a pen stroke.
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Whatever you want to call it, they have all these names for these coverages, I've seen them. Like those linemen coming out to jam me on the line of scrimmage. A lot of crazy stuff.
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I have three dogs at home. Even after losing a series or winning a series, they treat me the same way.
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The more you consume, the more insecure you are. It's the nature of the world.
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We said from the very beginning that we're in this for the long haul.
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Alan Greenspan is unskilled; you don't take the unskilled seriously.
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I used to do a lot of casual photography - back in the olden times when one used film - but it had fallen by the wayside over the years.
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Values can set a company apart from the competition by clarifying its identity and serving as a rallying point for employees. But coming up with strong values - and sticking to them - requires real guts.
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Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we're all in it together. It'll work when there's a shared sense of destiny. It can be done!
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The lyrics to the single 'Survivor' are Destiny's Child's story, because we've been through a lot, ... We went through our drama with the members ... Any complications we've had in our 10-year period of time have made us closer and tighter and better.
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Dan Loeb has become a billionaire searching out value in financial markets.
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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
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'The New York Times' thing... I think any actor would be thrilled to be profiled in that paper.
