Ethan Hawke Quotes
I really did Regression to work with Alejandro Amenabar. I found him very interesting. His movie, The Others, is one of the better scary movies of the last period of time.
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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Age for me is just a number.
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I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.
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The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
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I am a believer in the journey and enjoying the journey.
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Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.
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I am attracted by almost any French word - written or spoken. Before I knew its meaning, I thought 'saucisson' so exquisite that it seemed the perfect name to give a child - until I learned it meant 'sausage!'
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Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in New York City, and my family was an inveterate reader of newspapers and I loved holding a paper in my hand. It was something sacred.
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The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.
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The devil that stayed with me most vividly was the one from the cover of Iron Maiden's 'Number of the Beast' album.
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If Assad continues to conduct strikes against the Free Syrian Army at will, it would be very difficult for them to have any success against ISIS.
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When people say 'Black Lives Matter,' that doesn't mean blue lives don't matter; it just means all lives matter, but right now the big concern is the fact that the data shows black folks are more vulnerable to these kinds of incidents.
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There shouldn't be an announcement that divides our food between what tastes good and what is good for us.
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In the areas where FGM is going down, it has been addressed in a violence against women framework. It's a gender power control issue, and it is not something you can just educate people out of. It requires people to think that if they do it, there are ramifications. We cannot just rely on people's good will.
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As long as Green Lantern is still dealing with fear, it's going to be relevant. 'Rebirth' really grew out of 9/11. 9/11 happened, and then two years later, I was writing about fear. It was obviously connected.
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I think when you work alone - the way I do it, anyway - you could sort of liken it to painting, where there's sort of a one-on-one with the canvas.
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Reality is, you have to work harder the older you get.
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I really did Regression to work with Alejandro Amenabar. I found him very interesting. His movie, The Others, is one of the better scary movies of the last period of time.
