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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My only career strategy is to just not do anything that I have to be completely ashamed of afterwards! Whether it's TV or movies, I feel lucky to be working.
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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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Doing voices in animated movies has been one of my dreams. You get to go and act, and you don't have to put on makeup.
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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 was eight years old when I knew I wanted to be an actress. I slowly started by getting into commercials, and then I was an extra on a TV show. And then the movies happened.
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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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Even the nonreligious may exercise aesthetic judgment in matters of religion, and indeed our age has given the unbelieving a sophisticated taste in religious literature.
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Expectations are just leftover praise. They are a blessing. If you didn't have the capability to meet them, they wouldn't exist.
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I've never been to Paris. I don't like to fly!
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We need, ultimately, to be able to view mental health with the same clear-headedness we show when talking about physical health.
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It’s really very difficult to understand a woman – actually it’s not she but he who is confused
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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.
