John Hawkes Quotes
I guess you can say that every actor is a 'character actor' on some level. But I think some actors have a wider range. I think that's how you get that mantle.
Quotes to Explore
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
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I know when it's getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game time, to warm-ups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances.
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Our leaders are acting like lemmings.
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The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.
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I played a lot of squash for a lot of years.
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I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.
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Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.
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I love the Coen brothers. They're so brilliant, and they always surprise you in one way or another. 'A Serious Man' was awesome. I like stuff like that, that kind of throws you for a loop. It takes you on a journey that is unexpected.
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A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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Let's have some new cliches.
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I still enjoy doing music. I'm not going to stop doing it, and doing it the way that I feel it should be done.
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I love showing my scar on my tummy - it is shaped like a question mark.
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Plenty of people are raised Catholic and then aren't Catholic anymore, like any religion.
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There's something to be said about content living on a channel forever.
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When you wear a mask and create a character, nothing will pigeonhole you faster.
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I started acting in my parents living room when I was five years old.
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The most incredible gift you can give someone in a video is to help them feel less alone... The things that make us feel the most alone, have the greatest power to connect us
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I guess you can say that every actor is a 'character actor' on some level. But I think some actors have a wider range. I think that's how you get that mantle.
