John Twelve Hawks (John Twelve Hawks) Quotes
Human beings have an almost unlimited capacity for self-delusion. We can justify any amount of sadness if it fits our own particular standard of reality.
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I'm very proud of my love for Whitney Houston. She really changed my life. She made my life a better life. She was so beautiful in her love for God, her love for her family and her love for music. She truly loved her music. She could do everything! She had flawless rhythm, flawless pitch, flawless feeling, and flawless beauty.
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The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
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I'm about a 160, 170 bowler so I feel like I'm pretty good - I'm average, but I don't stink, you know?
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I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
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I've been a fan of Burberry for a very long time and they've been so supportive of me for many years.
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When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
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There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you've been in the business.
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I so never went through a bad-girl period.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?
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I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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When you tell the American people, 'Read my lips. No new taxes,' that should mean no new taxes.
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I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing there will be good things in my future!
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In a lot of ways, TV writing taught me how to be a good storyteller. I learned about dialogue, scenes, moving the plot forward.
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I address myself to the Communists, to those Communists who were prompted to join the Party by the progressive ideas of mankind and socialism, and not by selfish personal interests - let us represent our pure and just ideas by pure and just means.
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People like Beck and Shawn Colvin are some of the people I listen to lately.
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What I find fascinating about Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights we celebrate at this time of the year, is the way its story was transformed by time.
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Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
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Human beings have an almost unlimited capacity for self-delusion. We can justify any amount of sadness if it fits our own particular standard of reality.
