John Hawkes Quotes
For me and for I'm sure any actor, each role is a different challenge to prepare for in a different way.
Quotes to Explore
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.
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Breitbart media is named after the same gentleman who basically framed Shirley Sherrod during the Obama administration.
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I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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I always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why I'm writing and what I want to do with it. Shutting out the voices is difficult but it's been good for me.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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I do suspect that this world is hell.
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You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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When you're in college, you really don't know where you're going to end up, but you know who you want to be along that journey.
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I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.
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My problem is I can't show any of my movies to my daughters. It's tough. 'Beauty and the Beast'... they liked it. But that's the only one, really. Otherwise, they've always been dark or violent.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.
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When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
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I don't think in terms of legacy or that kind of stuff. I've always thought that'll take care of itself if I did everything right on a day-to-day basis.
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I am somebody who is constantly hungry to nibble on something.
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In most of the countries in the Muslim world today, most of them are autocratic regimes that are unpopular if not detested by their people. They need a scapegoat and for a long time the imperialist served that purpose.
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McCain is the kid who was really cool in middle school but never got high school game and people are sick of him acting like he's still popular.
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Music is where my love is. I don't think the acting thing is going to start outweighing that, but I think it's going to start being a good chunk of something I want to do.
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The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.
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My splurge would be a pair of leather Christian Louboutin over-the-knee boots. They're sick! I would do a really stretchy skinny jean under a black turtleneck and call it a day!
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For me and for I'm sure any actor, each role is a different challenge to prepare for in a different way.
