John Hawkes Quotes
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I'm an optimist about other people. I'm not an optimist about myself.
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The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.
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As a writer, I was shaped by a desire to write for black people. That things were not being represented. That was my motivating force. That it has become what it has become is shocking to me. I just wanted to be able to take care of my kids.
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I have heard nothing from my friends at The Family Guy. Yeah, I heard that they got picked up again and all that good stuff, but I haven't heard anything yet. But, you know, I'm very elusive and hard to contact.
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I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me.
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I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.
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Frankly, I don't like publicity.
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It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.
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I think being a character actor is exciting in that it allows you to embody completely different things, whether it's through wild accents or a crazy bad guy or a drunken good guy.
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Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom of Eric Ambler, by any measure.
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Chance explorations on search engines do not 'accidentally' lead users to extremist websites.
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I auditioned 5-6 times for 'Dangal.' I was just waiting for the final call, as there were about 15-16 girls who auditioned for the role.
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What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
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It's always hard, after you've been in command, to take a lesser role.
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When I'm working I wear so much makeup, and when I'm out with my friends I wear makeup, so sometimes at school I'm just like, 'Today is not much of a makeup day - foundation, chapstick - done.'
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One fifth of human kind depend on fish to live. Today now 70 percent of the fish stock are over-exploited. According to FAO if we don't change our system of fishing the main sea resources will be gone in 2050. We don't want to believe what we know.
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Amidst all of these flashing lights I pray The Fame wont take my life.
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'I don't... I don't care,' he said softly to his reflection. 'I have a job to do. It doesn't matter what I have become. It doesn't matter what I look like.'
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I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it.
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To put a girdle round about the world.
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The law against witches does not prove there be any; but it punishes the malice of those people that use such means to take away men's lives.
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I grew up in Memphis, Tennessee; I went to college in New Orleans before moving to New York City for graduate school. Both sets of my grandparents grew up in rural Mississippi and brought a lot of agrarian knowledge to Memphis, which is an urban center in the South. Both sets had amazing backyard gardens. My paternal grandfather, practically every inch of available space was green.
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I don't mean to be highfalutin about it, but I try to limit my visibility.
