Ethan Hawke Quotes
One of the things I can do is to try to put myself in different kinds of movies and that kind of subtly changes my work. By the time my obituary is written, I want there to be a great western and a great comedy.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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Entrepreneurship is the very back bone of our country and what makes us great - we are a nation of founders.
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May the work for the further development of chemical science, which has its strongest roots in this beautiful, strong and hard-working country of Sweden, continue to flourish in the future, for the promotion of culture and the benefit of mankind.
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I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.
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It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth.
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I'm a political conservative.
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People book me because of the songs I write, not because of the sets that I play, per se... I'm sure I'm going to be moving to a laptop really soon, but I was one of the last guys to let the vinyl go. I was crying. In my room, I still have thousands of records. I still pull them out and play them all the time.
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Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.
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I've really enjoyed doing 'Annie Get Your Gun' and loved Neil Simon stuff like 'Chapter Two.'
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If anything changes shape or takes off without me, I'll come after you and kill you. I'm too type A.
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The best Christmas present I got from my husband was a week to do whatever I wanted.
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'The Replacements' is where I met Jon Favreau, and we just clicked like, you know, like kids at a camp.
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Political hypocrisy and racism make me hot under the collar.
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A modern economy is marked by the feasibility of endogenous change: Modernization brings myriad arrangements from expanded property rights to company law and financial institutions.
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I love 'Pac-man', 'Mortal Kombat', and 'Street Fighter'. 'Ryu' is my favourite-ever character - I'd love to leapfrog the Hadouken. I never really evolved too far beyond that, but I have played '2K17'.
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I have never been able to read Agatha Christie - the pleasure is purely in the puzzle, and the reader is toyed with by someone who didn't decide herself who the killer was until the end of the writing.
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The dangerous thing about platform introductions is that they tend to create unrealistic expectations.
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Basic emotions can be conveyed through anything. As long as you show people that you're human, they'll relate to it.
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I don't really look for a script and go, 'I need to do a thriller, so I'm going to do this.' I just read scripts and look for the best possible story.
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When I was doing 'Spring Awakening' the first couple of years I was living in New York, I was gay, and I was living with my 'roommate,' who was my boyfriend but was my roommate to everyone else.
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Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call to take the audience for a tumble.
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And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.
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I am very strong. When you have children, you have to be.
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One of the things I can do is to try to put myself in different kinds of movies and that kind of subtly changes my work. By the time my obituary is written, I want there to be a great western and a great comedy.
