John Hawkes Quotes
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If your mom is still around, you're so lucky.
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If Jesus Christ came back today, He and I would get into our brown corduroys and go to the nearest jean store and overturn the racks of blue denim.
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I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.
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One drawing demands to become a painting, so I start to work on that, and then the painting might demand something else. Then the painting might say, 'I want a companion, and the companion should be like this,' so I have to find that, either by drawing it myself or locating the image.
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I'm painfully middle class.
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Everyone needs help when they try something new.
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I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.
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Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel it's necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.
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Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
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I try to do as many different roles as the system will allow me. That's the benefit of not being in a giant blockbuster where you're the lead and you get typecast in that kind of role. I am able to slip in or out of a lot of different parts.
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Theater owners are exerting a lot of power over the studios to withhold access to content that people want to see. That's bad for consumers, that's bad for studios, and ultimately, I think it will be bad for theaters.
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God makes everything in perfect time, and he doesn't give you anything you can't handle.
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There's a huge impact on national security and intelligence. The new normal is going to be more and more of these hacks, whether it's Target or Home Depot or the Office of Personnel Management or Jennifer Lawrence's nude photos.
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The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them.
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I never intended to be a professional writer; as the story developed, the one thing I had in my hopes was that this would be something tangible to separate me from the nameless, numbered masses.
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When people come to Jamaica, we don't want them to think about the problems of Jamaica. So let them come be in their paradise.
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The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
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Let us go then, you and I,When the evening is spread out against the skyLike a patient etherized upon a table.
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I did standup comedy. I opened once for Jay Leno.
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I'm not one of those people who's against doing remakes.
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My grandmother wanted my father to be a teacher because she was a teacher. He didn't go down that road until much later in life; he just kind of retired after almost 20 years as being a visiting lecturer at Stanford, where he got his graduate degree.
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It is a good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe, is good too. It fattens the emotions and makes them to stretch.
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I asked my wife, 'Is there somebody else?' She said, 'There MUST be.'
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There's a lot of skeletons in my closet!
