John Hawkes Quotes
I do all kinds of roles - nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho - and occasionally someone kind of normal. It's weird, when I lived in Austin I was always cast as pretty normal people. But when I moved to Los Angeles I was immediately branded a psycho.
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I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted to rebel against what I considered to be such old fashioned fare.
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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I have to be smart. You cannot be going in there, trying to go forward and pressure guys, and be taking damage and getting hurt on the way to doing it.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set up an obsessional frame of mind. In a paradoxical way, this leaves one free of the subject of the obsession.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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My dad showed me loads of films when I was young, but I never thought I would be in movies. That didn't seem like a real job to me.
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If you don't like what you do, you're probably dragging your feet.
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Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.
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I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person.
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I am certain that the good Lord never intended grapes to be made into grape jelly.
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A universal voucher program would change the face of poverty in this country.
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I believe that artists should be paid for their creativity. There's no other industry where people can come in and take what you create for free and give it away for free and that's acceptable.
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If our nation wants to reduce global warming, air pollution and energy instability, we should invest only in the best energy options. Nuclear energy isn't one of them.
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We must be the great arsenal of Democracy.
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I do all kinds of roles - nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho - and occasionally someone kind of normal. It's weird, when I lived in Austin I was always cast as pretty normal people. But when I moved to Los Angeles I was immediately branded a psycho.
