Ethan Hawke Quotes
You can't keep wanting to be 20 years old. Everybody knows that, but what's in the next room?
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The stuff that's going on is just so over-the-top, with the banking crisis and destroying the Gulf of Mexico, and the outrage hasn't quite caught up with the people yet. But when it does, I think you're going to see really virulent anti-authoritarian kind of comedy coming out.
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I love trying to forge a contract between creator and audience in which we are able to meet halfway, each injecting a part of our own experiences into a story that's being told.
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I remember when AOL was small and they were growing like mad. Consumers were coming on in droves because they made it easy to connect to the Internet. That was the single biggest innovation of AOL; when grandmas were signing up, AOL had arrived.
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There are moments when we are incapable of exchanging a single word with anybody…it’s beyond us…
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I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be.
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We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.
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The ultimate necessity is the summoning of the mind and will to do their duty.
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He who does not welcome the Cross does not welcome God.
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The people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived.
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I produced a play in New York that got nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for Best American Play.The play is called Stalking The Bogeyman. It was a story on This American Life, and my former roommate is the artistic director of the New York Repertory Theater. He heard the NPR show, contacted them, and essentially - shortest synopsis ever, like I'm the Cablevision guide button - it's the true story of a man stalking and plotting to kill the man who raped him when he was seven. It's by a brilliant reporter named David Holthouse.
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I still like some of the stuff, skateboarding. Just stupid things.
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I remember thinking I don't care what he does. I don't care if he beats the crap out of me. I don't care if he rapes me. I just want to get out of here alive.
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Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective.
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Study and practice are both very important, but they must go hand in hand. Faith without knowledge is not sufficient. Faith needs to be supported by reason. However intellectual understanding that is not applied in practice is also of little use. Whatever we learn from study we need to apply sincerely in our daily lives.
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Make incremental progress, change comes not by the yard, but by the inch.
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Writing is mysterious, and it's supposed to be...any path that gets you there is a good path in the end. But one true thing among all these paths is the need to tap a deep vein of connection between our own uncontrollable interior preoccupations and what we're most concerned about in the world around us. We write in response to that world; we write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves, the live, breathing, bleeding place where the picture forms, and where it all begins.
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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I eyed her like a thirsty traveler in the desert looks at a pail of water.
