John Hawkes Quotes
Certainly I've had the experience of thinking a person was one thing, and finding out they were another.
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Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
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Only let it be in the name of Jesus Christ, that I may suffer together with Him! I endure everything because He Himself, Who is perfect man, empowers me.
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'LazyTown' is basically about motivation. So what do I call motivation? I call it 'go.' The show is going to inspire kids to go. Go fishing. Go dancing. Go live.
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When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
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The way I look at it you can always get better.
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Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing. And Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.
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One time I got dressed in all black, Rambo-style, and took a massive pair of bolt-cutters and nicked a military bike.
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I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.'
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So many people have asked me about getting their own LEGO Oscar that I submitted it to LEGO Ideas so that everyone has the ability to get one.
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So, it looks like we rebuild the village and blow it apart a few more times.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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There is a sound that comes from gospel music that doesn't come from anything else. It is a sound of peace. It is a sound of, 'I'm going to make it through all of this.'
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It's interesting: I've been doing this since I was 17, and it's kind of weird to see yourself grow up on television.
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When I was growing up, there were so many musicals you could watch. I like the fantasy of musicals and I love music.
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Every time you do a big sword fight surrounded by a couple of hundred extras, it's a fun day at work.
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Most of the dramatism in Wagner comes from a very close link between the music and the language of the text. So much of the expressivity of Wagner's music dramas comes from the singers' capacity to play with the sound of the language. This kind of thing you can do very well in concert performance.
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The Old Vegas is gone. It's not that it's necessarily better or worse; it's just totally different.
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I'm not some cute guy who is trying to be successful off that. I really want the music to come first.
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But at the end of the day, it was his call. So I would go off and do rewrites while they shot.
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Certainly I've had the experience of thinking a person was one thing, and finding out they were another.
