Ethan Hawke Quotes
I have a daughter and the thing I wish for her is not love, fame, money or anything like that. It's just one great best friend. You know, if you have somebody that has your back, you're gonna be all right.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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For nearly as long as civilization has existed, patriarchy - enforced through the rights of the firstborn son - has been the organizing principle, with few exceptions.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.
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Winning, you can overlook so many things.
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Look for inspiration in books, magazines, and even other people's homes - then be brave and take a chance with a room in your home.
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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
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When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.
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In 2001, I was being treated for breast cancer, and I was pretty sure I was going to recover.
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I'm a serial monogamist.
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I'm very lucky.
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People can be slave-ships in shoes.
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Men act out like they're horrified by marriage, but when they find the woman of their dreams, they love it.
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I know enough of the family life of officers. I scarcely know my own children or they me.
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The role of my agent has just been to get me in the room. If I can get in the room - say the character is just a charming man who lives next door - then I'll walk in there and be as charming as I can and they will think to themselves, 'I don't see why we can't cast him.'
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I believe 'love' is very nice to hear, but it's used so much that it's come to a point where it's almost meaningless.
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What I think a lot of great marathon runners do is envision crossing that finish line. Visualization is critical. But for me, I set a lot of little goals along the way to get my mind off that overwhelming goal of 26.2 miles. I know I've got to get to 5, and 12, and 16, and then I celebrate those little victories along the way.
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Ties between our two countries are literally, literally unbreakable.
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To do it always right, that is what music is to me.
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Sometimes good television doesn't depend on money, it depends on imagination and good people directing, casting and doing the job with talented people.
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I think the reality is that, that money was probably badly spent.
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I have a daughter and the thing I wish for her is not love, fame, money or anything like that. It's just one great best friend. You know, if you have somebody that has your back, you're gonna be all right.
