David Hawkins Quotes
We have to cross the boundary between knowing and not knowing many times before we achieve understanding.
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Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
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Starting in the 1970s, American cars started to lose market share to foreign cars. It was clear what was happening - these better-made foreign car companies were encroaching on the U.S., and the U.S. car makers had less than half of their own country's market.
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In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy.
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It's almost always possible to be honest and positive.
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I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence.
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My father was very chic. My mum was always encouraging me. Some parents would say, 'Why don't you be a lawyer, a doctor, or something more important?' They never said that.
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I have been very fortunate to coach marvellous teams, and it has been a great honour to work for Switzerland.
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...The reality is otherwise. Vicente Fox & friends are far closer than all but a few realize to making inevitable a North American Union where American sovereignty is dissipated and the republic is no more.
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Ita res accendent lumina rebus.
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One always treads with a joyful step when one has dropped the burden called the ego.
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II n'y a que les pauvres gens qui payent comptant. Ce n'est pas par vertu; c'est parce qu'on ne leur fait pas crédit.
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I loved Justice and Uffie and everyone signed to the label Ed Banger. They were really influential to me when first started making music.
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From my own perspective, I value productivity more than tradition, but the customs of the House evolve slowly.
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People always come up to me and say, 'you should do standup.' It's nice to discover things about yourself. That keeps everything lively and fun.
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Not many know that I'm a mountaineer, and my love for adventure will never die.
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Comedy prepared me for drama. There are a couple techniques you can think of. One of my acting teachers said that comedy is like ping-pong, and drama is tennis. You take things a bit slower, so you do get to breathe more and take some more time.
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A lot of people think, 'I'll give acting or poetry or filmmaking a try. And if it doesn't work out I'll go get a law degree, do something else that's more practical.' For me I went the reverse way. I lived the back-up plan.
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There is nothing like understanding that your work has touched somebody. That is the sole purpose of acting. To be able to move and inspire. If I can do that for one person it is already changing the world and that makes me feel accomplished.
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When I did 'Scrubs', we were able to always do one as scripted, and then we got to play a little bit and do some stuff. I thought that was pretty loose, but then coming on 'Happy Endings,' it's even looser.
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Knowing that girls are inspired to not have the burden of self-hate, even if it's a tiny way, makes me happy to no end. It gets me up in the morning and softens a lot of the blows I get.
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My smile wavers as I revert to my natural state of being: nervous and weird.
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We have to cross the boundary between knowing and not knowing many times before we achieve understanding.
