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 begin with, I don't have any stage fright.
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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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Eating-wise, I'm fairly disciplined. I have to be, because if you're not eating correctly, you're not giving your body the fuel it needs. So, I stay away from carbs after the morning, and I eat a lot of protein - fish, chicken, and no red meat.
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I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.
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As the youngest of three girls, most of my childhood works were revenge fantasies against my older sisters, so of course the sisters in 'Pretty Girls' share some similarities to my own.
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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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I'm really trying hard not to do anything that has been done before. So knowing everything I can about the legacy of magic challenges my team and I to invent new illusions.
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There are always surprises. Life may be inveterately grim and the surprises disproportionately unpleasant, but it would be hardly worth living if there were no exceptions, no sunny days, no acts of random kindness.
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It's not just enough to swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let the ball have it.
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I didn't even know that small bands played in Las Vegas. I just thought it was, like, Celine Dion and stuff.
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If each of your time steps is one week long, you are not modeling the stock price terribly well over a one-week time period, because you are saying that there are only two possible outcomes.
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I don't have actor training myself.
