John Hawkes Quotes
When something gets attention so quickly, people sometimes will look for reasons to find fault and tear it down.
Quotes to Explore
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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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My daughter plays keyboard very well, and my son plays guitar, and they're totally into music.
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I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.
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Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.
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Study the field that you want to get into and know everything about it.
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Everybody influences everybody else, in my opinion. There are different trends in music all the time. No matter who starts them, if it's a true trend in the music, it ends up influencing other people as well.
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When something gets attention so quickly, people sometimes will look for reasons to find fault and tear it down.
