John Hawkes Quotes
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If you've got Mystique as your girlfriend the fun you could have in bed – I've just imagined X-Men 3 might open with me in bed with Patrick Stewart.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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I believe that if you eat well, you work even better.
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But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.
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Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.
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I feel crazy that me sticking with my dreams actually worked. It's wild and incredible.
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Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.
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Drama was all I ever wanted to do. There was no plan B!
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A career is a job you love, right? That's what a career should be. If you're in a job that you hate, you should quit. That's the way I look at it. I'm in a job that I love, so I'm going to make it my career.
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I have a couture body.
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'Homeland' is great at challenging our preconceived ideas.
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America must realize, there are conditions she must accept in Asia. The first is a diversity of Asian cultures, governments, economic and political systems; the second, that to run against the tide of Asian nationalism is worse than impractical - it is also highly dangerous.
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I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability.
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I don't think your personal life has anything to do with your professional life. They are separate things. Whatever is happening at home shouldn't be carried to work. Everyone has his/her own journey. Some revel in the fact that they derive that from personal contentment, and others draw it from extreme sorrow.
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I found myself doing all these action-adventure movies, and it's been a fantastic experience, and I've learnt a lot.
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I'm crazy about Judi Dench.
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Stories without endings can do nothing but go on forever, and to be caught in one means that you must die before your part in it is played out.
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I don't think I would have written a combat novel if I had just had peacetime military training. I think, in fact, I probably would have remained a poet and just written a short story every now and then.
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I don't have actor training myself.
