Ethan Hawke Quotes
If you covet fame, if you covet all the superficial accolades, you're gonna be miserable 'cause you're never going to get enough praise. If you covet contributing something substantive to movies, music, literature, then you won't be unhappy.
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I get upset about what is taken as great literature and what is cute and exotic.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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Low budget movies make lots of money.
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I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.
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Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.
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We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies.
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I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.
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I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it's important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture.
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When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in.
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I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.
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I never went after fame. It fell into my lap.
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When I first stepped into literature twenty-five years ago, I wanted to work on behalf of the oppressed, the working masses, and it seemed to me, mistakenly, that I would not find them among the Jews.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.
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Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
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My daughter's dabbling in showbiz, and she's done a few commercials. She's auditioned for some movies and shows, so I'm letting her pursue that. I'm OK with it.
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My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'
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Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.
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I'm a huge hip-hop fan from way back in the day.
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Violence is an expression of impotence.
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It doesn't matter to me what is going on today because my music encompasses every kind of mood that exists in human beings. That's my stick.
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When the dream in our heart is one that God has planted there, a strange happiness flowers into us. At that moment all of the spiritual resources of the universe are released to help us. Our praying is then at one with the will of God and becomes a channel for the Creator's always joyous, triumphant purposes for us and our world.
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If you covet fame, if you covet all the superficial accolades, you're gonna be miserable 'cause you're never going to get enough praise. If you covet contributing something substantive to movies, music, literature, then you won't be unhappy.
