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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Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
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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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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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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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One of the things an actor tries to access is immediacy, so that you feel like you're experiencing it for the first time. But when you're playing a character who knows what's going to happen and can't stop himself to reacting although he knows he can't stop himself from reacting, there's a whole separate set of things to consider.
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Knowing and doing are entirely different things.
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Most actors can't make any kind of living.
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There's been very little writing about speech impediments, even though it's this huge psychological barrier.
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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.
