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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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'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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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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The mentality with African and European people is different. In Africa, when you come from a difficult life, when it's not so easy to eat, not so easy to survive, you respect money when you start to earn it, and you respect people more. When you respect people, they will respect you, and your life is better for that.
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It's a long, hard, difficult process to make it to a national championship.
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'Painting like a child' isn't a negative for me... it's something only great artists can really achieve. The childlike quality of some of Picasso's drawings is precisely what makes them so masterful and extraordinary; the ability to express complete visions, feelings and portraits through a continuous line.
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If they want to party and do all the things I say brought me sadness in my song, with my song as the soundtrack... so be it.
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It can be very hard to find clothing for different body shapes. After all, there are only, what, five companies for plus-size women?
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I got a lot of fans who are not even into fashion. So they look at me and wear what I wear because it's cool or looks cool.
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My shooting technique is so poor that if someday I score from outside the box, the keeper has to be banned from football.
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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.
