Ethan Hawke Quotes
My goal is to tell good stories. And to try as best I can to do something new with acting. To learn from the past and to be a relevant artist. To make stories that are interesting and contemporary and to tell some kind of emotional truth.Ethan Hawke
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It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.
Vince Flynn -
Unfortunately, the public might not know that we get a script usually two days before shooting. So sometimes I'm shooting an episode and don't even know how it's going to end because I haven't read that yet.
Fisher Stevens -
Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
I didn't have a sense of being in a show business family or of being different, partly because Los Angeles is an industry town, so you don't think about it as being special.
Talia Balsam -
I've always wanted to do a lot of things.
Sam Underwood -
Here's how I look at it: Life is full of challenges. Everybody has them. For some, it's health or family crises. I had a financial challenge.
Tamara Tunie
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I'm boring. My beliefs are neither here nor there.
A. N. Wilson -
I've been embracing gray hair since... high school, and I don't think that anything's changed since then.
Taylor Hicks -
I'm hopeless at small talk and have a problem making eye contact.
Gary Numan -
Know ye not that the end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered?
Alexander the Great -
Theories are only verified hypotheses, verified by more or less numerous facts. Those verified by the most facts are the best, but even then they are never final, never to be absolutely believed.
Claude Bernard -
Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That's definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.
Brené Brown
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I ate cucumbers and saltines - not because I wanted to look a certain way, but because I was so sad my appetite disappeared.
Betty Gilpin -
I took on the math-intensive art form of holography and, in my early 20s, traveled the world, living on university fellowships to pursue this esoteric craft. I didn't date much, really - perhaps because I didn't have many hormones, though I didn't know that at the time.
Mary Lou Jepsen -
All generalizations are false, including this one.
Mark Twain -
When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
Jesse Jackson -
I want to be Willy Wonka. He has a really fun spirited side but also a dark, justice-giver side.
Drew Daywalt -
America's parenting customs can shock foreigners.
Pamela Druckerman
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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.
Oscar Wilde -
There is no finish line. When you reach one goal, find a new one.
Chuck Norris -
Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it.
Pierre Bourdieu -
Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness. The work of ameliorating the conditions of life -- the true civilizing process that makes life more and more secure -- had gone steadily on to a climax... And the harvest was what I saw.
H. G. Wells -
More than four decades after Nixon met Mao, the relationship between the U.S. and China has reached a pivotal moment. To date, even as China has become more powerful and present in our lives, Americans have generally found it to be an unsatisfying 'enemy.'
Evan Osnos -
My goal is to tell good stories. And to try as best I can to do something new with acting. To learn from the past and to be a relevant artist. To make stories that are interesting and contemporary and to tell some kind of emotional truth.
Ethan Hawke