Ethan Hawke Quotes
When I woke up I was naked. I have this one oddball idiosyncrasy: Sometimes in my sleep I take off all my clothes.
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When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.
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My goal when I make my show is to make a show for women. I don't make a show for men.
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We care about margins.
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I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future.
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One way to reduce the need for layoffs would be to cut back on hours, spreading the available work among more employees.
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I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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I can take an opinion, but I don't like when you try and spew hate and contaminate the way other people think. I feel like I'm one of the people that's always made music for the common man. That's why I don't really live my life the way I could. I don't stunt as much as I could stunt, 'cause that's not who my music is for.
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I'm getting rid of this idea that you want people to like you. I'm making decisions on what feels right to me. To act in a more carnal way. That's my challenge.
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I considered myself very lucky after 'Baghdad Cafe,' and I have 'The Shield.' In every genre, I've kicked butt at some point. I'm real happy.
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I like everything that people say. No matter what they say. You gay, you a punk. You got a nice girlfriend, you're ugly, you can't rap, you're the hardest.
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I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.
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On a purely personal level, it's very strange, because as a kid, Superman informed my personality. Now I've been given the job of forming Superman's personality and, in some ways, drawing on my own background.
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I don't go to premieres. I don't go to parties. I don't covet the Oscar. I don't want any of that. I don't go out. I just have dinner at home every night with my kids. Being famous, that's a whole other career. And I haven't got any energy for it.
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Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.
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A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?' It's because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they're gonna say no to you, at least they're gonna be polite about it.
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In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Clothes have to be simple and comfortable.
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American closets are filled with once-worn clothes that got a bad review from a friend on their first appearance.
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When I was designing, I had in mind Jimi Hendrix, and I could hardly find skinny indie black kids to wear my clothes. I remember one telling me he had to swap his skinny jeans for baggy ones in the subway before going home, so he wouldn't get in trouble in his neighborhood.
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I've had a growing conviction that Congress is not operating as it should. There is much too much partisanship and not enough progress.
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When I woke up I was naked. I have this one oddball idiosyncrasy: Sometimes in my sleep I take off all my clothes.
