Ethan Hawke Quotes
The writing process was some of the most exciting and rewarding moments of my life. It felt a lot like being in a band.
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
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I think all of us are thankful every day we get to put this uniform on, and we play this game. So try not to take any days for granted. Every time you take the field, give a hundred percent and leave it all out there.
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I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.
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Luckily, I have been offered the chance to play a South American, Hispanic and even a character from the Middle East in films. There are also a lot of TV series in the U.S. that have a strong presence of actors from India.
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The most divisive issue facing New Yorkers in 2013 is stop and frisk, a tactic used by law enforcement to stop, question, and frisk people suspected of a crime.
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
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We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.
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Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.
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I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
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All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.
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The bigger you become of a celebrity, the bigger the expectations, the pressure on you - to make change, to say what people want, to target the people they want to target. Fame is toxic; it is quite toxic.
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When writers for adults contemplate Venice, they behold decay, dereliction and death. Thomas Mann, Daphne du Maurier, L. P. Hartley and Salley Vickers have all dispatched hapless protagonists to Italy, where they see Venice - and die.
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When you get that signing bonus, don't start thinking about all the things you can do with $1 million.
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I am interested in people. I'm interested in telling stories, whether that is behind the camera or in front of the camera.
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I grew up with my two sisters and my mom, so it's my lot in life to be surrounded by women.
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I was really dramatic, really concerned with love or life.
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This whole Oscar thing is so political. It's about how much a film grosses, and who's in it, and how well it has been promoted.
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I hope that my life ends up being my greatest work of art, not just my music.
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I feel I have a divine mandate to go and tell the people of this world that it is possible to be strong in the Lord Jesus Christ. We are in training for the tribulation, but more than sixty percent of the Body of Christ across the world has already entered into the tribulation. There is no way to escape it. We are next.
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In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
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Tyranny will make an entire population into readers of poetry.
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That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.
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The writing process was some of the most exciting and rewarding moments of my life. It felt a lot like being in a band.
