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 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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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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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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We want New Hampshire to be a haven for entrepreneurs and inventors - the people who are creating the products and good-paying jobs of the future.
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My dream was always to be on the cover of 'Sports Illustrated.'
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In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.
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My father was a civil servant, so having a regular job, being respectable is a big deal for me. Respectable in the sense that I support my family. That's what I mean by respectability.
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Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.
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I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries. I was really drawn to it.
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I hope that in 50 years I can look back and say I made my most fervent efforts to provide visibility for the unseen.
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I used to define success as being able to produce any result you wanted, whether it was a relationship, weight-loss, being a millionaire, impacting the culture, changing society, whatever it might be - it might be homelessness, whatever - and lately, I've redefined success as 'fulfilling your soul's purpose.'
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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.
