Corey Hawkins Quotes

I'll just put it this way: I've struggled enough as a working actor - and, most of the times, a not working actor - to know that anytime you are working is a blessing.

Corey Hawkins

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• I knew from the first episode that 'Longmire' was something special - I met the writers/exec producers, read the script, and knew it was special, so to have the network and the studio and the fans get behind it in the way that they have has been really amazing.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Amazing
  • Special
  • Behind

• I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Human
  • Try
  • Emotions

• What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Good
  • Lost
  • Best

• I really don't have a type. I never had a type. If I could put them all together, it's, like, the most different grouping. So I love when guys are funny. I love guys that are funny and goofy and over the top. And you know, I really like personality.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Different
  • Love
  • Together

• I can't stand reading anything that I've said.

  

  Larry David
  • Reading
  • Said
  • Stand

• As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Men
  • Women
  • Dying

• I learned not to depend on other people. I needed support, but it's you who has to go out and deliver.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • People
  • You
  • Support

• I don't have time for easy. Tennis is just hard.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Time
  • Easy
  • Tennis

• In a lot of movies, you'll see people on crazy dates, and you're like, 'No one would ever do that!'

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Movies

• Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • Always
  • Grace
  • State

• For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking my characters to the edges of human experience, to the edges of themselves and then, asking certain questions - about love, what does it mean to love? What's beauty? What is true beauty? What does it mean to be insane - crazy?

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Experience
  • True
  • Crazy

• Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Night
  • Air
  • Cold

• I used to be fast and loose with the term 'country' because I didn't know what else to call my music. I still don't.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • Music
  • Country
  • Know

• I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Up
  • World
  • Irish

• I've been racing for my whole life, and I know what I need to do to be able to win.

  

  J. R. Celski
  • Life
  • Know
  • Win

• I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I was excited about the canvas on which I could tell the story as much as the story itself.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Challenge
  • Film
  • Period

• But Hezbollah now has reared its ugly head in a way that threatens the entire free world. And they want, by their own charter and definition, the destruction of Israel and Christians. That is the truth. That is in their charter.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • World
  • Truth
  • Free

• The fact, however, to which I want to call attention is that the master of Judo never relies upon his own strength. He scarcely uses his own strength in the greatest emergency. Then what does he use? Simply the strength of his antagonist. The force of the enemy is the only means by which that enemy is overcome.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Attention
  • Mean
  • Enemy

• Basketball has so much showboating you'd think it was invented by Jerome Kern.

  

  Art Spander
  • Basketball

• By liberty, then, we can only mean a power of acting or not acting, according to the determinations of the will.

  

  David Hume
  • Power

• In Montreal, when I grew up, I'd go to the Notre-Dame Basilica, a gorgeous cathedral in town. I'd listen to huge symphony orchestras, Pavarotti singing operas; that was absolutely marvelous. I like that aspect of the cathedral, the spectacle.

  

  Christopher Plummer
  • Up
  • Singing

• If all you had was academic ability, you wouldn't have been able to get out of bed this morning. In fact, there wouldn't have been a bad to get out of. No one could have made one. You could have written about possibility of one, but not have constructed it.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Bad
  • Morning
  • Ability

• I'll just put it this way: I've struggled enough as a working actor - and, most of the times, a not working actor - to know that anytime you are working is a blessing.

  

  Corey Hawkins