Ethan Hawke Quotes
I think that as soon as you think of yourself as a famous person or anything like that, you're objectifying yourself in some weird way.
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If you don't want to get bored with what you're doing, you have to change.
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The idea was never for me to be a career bureaucrat or career technocrat; it was more about where I could implement ideas and reform programs.
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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
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O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?
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'Limbo' has been one of the greatest hits of my career. A great response all over the world, not just Latinos but people in Europe and America.
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I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.
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One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
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I was born in Patterson, New Jersey, and raised pretty much all around the country. My family tended to move from place to place following economic prospects and jobs and looking for new opportunities, so we changed schools, colleges, grade schools, high schools every 6 months to a year - depending on the breaks.
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The White House is the people's house. When you do historical restoration, that must be what it is.
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I started as a writer for magazines, and soon they asked me to illustrate my stories. I started from the bottom of the bottom. And I climbed the stairs, one by one.
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I think I've had an interesting life. I've done films, TV, theatre and got married. I don't have any regrets.
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I'm someone who believes the only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn.
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I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.
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There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.
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Rod and I believe that it's our duty to set an example, which means teaching our children to treat others as they would wish to be treated.
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The political Right is particularly vehement when it comes to compromise. Conservatives are now strongly swayed by the Tea Party movement, whose clarion call is a refusal to compromise regardless of the practical consequences.
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Since I was a baby my goal was to be on TV because film was just impossible - you never got any Asian women in Western cinema. I grew up wanting to be in 'East-Enders' because film wasn't even a dream. The community were very much like, 'How can you want to act? It's such a low-class profession.'
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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues,' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it, and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.
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I am inclined to believe that some music, like certain poetry, finds its appeal and way to all.
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I couldn't be a police officer. It's a very difficult job to put your life in the face of danger for someone else, and that is extremely selfless. To now vilify cops is not really the way I think it should be looked at.
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The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.
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Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue.
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I think that as soon as you think of yourself as a famous person or anything like that, you're objectifying yourself in some weird way.
