John Hawkes Quotes
When something gets attention so quickly, people sometimes will look for reasons to find fault and tear it down.
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.
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I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.
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I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.
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This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.
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When you save book reports, art projects and put them in a scrapbook, it shows a kid you care and you are taking an interest in their lives.
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My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
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When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
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I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.
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If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would be no limit.
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I'm interested in fashion; I buy fairly good pieces, and I think as I've gotten older, I've pared down a lot.
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I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.
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'Character Doesn't Count' has become a de facto G.O.P. motto. 'Virtue Doesn't Matter' might be another. But character does count, and virtue does matter, and Trump's shortcomings prove it daily.
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You gotta remember: the record industry, in order for it to really thrive, has got to attract great people.
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When I was very young, I took no interest in party politics. My line of interest was how can you be part of an influence to the society that you live in.
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We have to show people we are willing to adapt to their world.
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A renewed commitment to the freedom and opportunity of our people is the touchstone of our time. In this new century, where tests are many and challenges change with the shifting of the wind, we must hold fast to the principles that have made our nation the envy of the world.
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When something gets attention so quickly, people sometimes will look for reasons to find fault and tear it down.
