Trip Hawkins Quotes
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.
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A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
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I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.
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I've approached every character I've ever played with a poem, first and foremost.
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To me, 'The End of the Jews' - both the title and the novel itself - is about the end of pat, uncritical ways of understanding oneself in the world.
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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students don't end up writing, what's good about them taking the courses is, they become great readers, learning to appreciate the writing.
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When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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I'll make the right decision, whichever one it is. I have to be 100 percent, not 95 or 99.
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I really like doing puppetry; I'm not sure if it will find its way into 'Big Bang,' but it always does seem to find its way into a lot of things.
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Well, I don't throw things. This particular night I brought one from the floor so to speak, and he ended up getting a cut over his head, and the police came, took him to another side of the hotel, and that was like September 6, 1981.
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If I'm chartering in and out and flying home after I play, that doesn't make sense. But where we can bus, then we'll bring the family out and spend time with them during the day.
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I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.
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Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
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The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it.
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I’ve protected it the Nirvana catalogue from everything from Kentucky Fried Chicken commercials to movies about board games. We’ve been offered $6 million for 18 seconds of one Nirvana song and I turned it down.
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The fact is that our kids aren't reading books - or frankly, much of anything lately. Schools are under funded, some schools even closing their libraries. Parents have to realize that it's their job, and not the school's job, to get kids into the habit of reading for fun.
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To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.
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School was unbelievably painful. It was five years of being pretty sad.
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So many Christmas films either are twee, or try and go super edgy, then stick on something Christmassy at the end of the movie.
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For me, I love food. It's my greatest pleasure and also the thing that could ruin you as well. It's one of those things where, if you're not thoughtful about it, it could be unhealthy. But if there's a mindfulness about it; it actually is a wonderful tool of emotional expression.
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The only problem we've had is the amount of time it's taking people to develop titles.
