Mike Hawkins Quotes
When you can't stop what you're doing long enough to improve it, you will never stop what you are doing.
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I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.
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I think the American people deserve to have the issues debated, regardless of which side they're on, so that they are fully aware of what their representatives and senators are voting for and voting against.
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I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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The Oscar or the Emmy says you've reached a level of competence in this business, and I would love to have one.
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I have always appreciated the honest brutality of the international film world. One need never doubt one's worth in the market. Mine was zero.
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I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you - you want them to just be themselves. Then you can edit or mess around with what they've come up with. But you have to allow the artist that space.
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The great love of my life is music.
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As a writer, a blank page will humble the hell out of you. It always does, and it always will.
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The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.
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Jon Bon Jovi is remarkable.
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I was an only child, and my mom threw me into some modeling classes to get me out of my shell.
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I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.
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When you're on top, you're on top.
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Twice I let people talk me out of good ideas.
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The original Grand Tour would generally begin in Belgium or the Netherlands before moving through Paris, Geneva, Spain, Italy, and perhaps Greece.
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There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.
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I'm not in the luxury-goods business. I sell unique objects. I wish I was in luxury goods because then I could just call the factory and say, 'I need 10,000 more of whatever.' But I can't - because then it's not art, it's something else.
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The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they had some political power.
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I am often asked the question: 'What is your favorite type of food?' Although I always answer Japanese, the real response should be and is pierogi, the delectable Polish dumplings that my mother, Big Martha, made so well in many incarnations: potato, sweet cabbage, blueberry, peach, plum, and apricot.
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The CIA teamed up with Army, Air Force and Naval Intelligence to run one of the most nefarious, classified, enhanced interrogation programs of the Cold War. The work took place inside a clandestine facility in the American zone of occupied Germany, called Camp King.
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When you can't stop what you're doing long enough to improve it, you will never stop what you are doing.
