John C. Hawkes Quotes

My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead.

John C. Hawkes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 17, 1925 - May 15, 1998

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FatherParentsWeekYearLookBack

I find it hard to write with writers sometimes because of their way of writing. Some are heavily focused on structure, but I have more of a 'Let's go with it' mindset. I like to be creative, and when I hear something that inspires me, I'll come up with a melody, a lyric to that melody, and take it from there. I try to keep it open.

Jess Glynne

CreativeMeWritingMindsetFindGo

Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.

John Wooden

LearningGreatGamePlayWithout

I am a Reagan Republican.

Roger Stone

I AmRepublicanAmReagan

When I weed, I like to get off into my own head. For one thing, my wife plants and I have trouble telling which plants are weeds and which are my favorite plants. So I tend to hop around and grab the weeds that I know are weeds. So I don't weed all that linearly. I tend to weed haphazardly.

Roy Blount, Jr.

WifePlantsTroubleKnowMy OwnOwn

I have been very, very blessed with not having stage parents.

Rumer Willis

ParentsBlessedStageBeenVery

Watching soccer is very sexy. Small pads, shorts, good legs, and they usually don't have mangled faces. Also, all the good ones have rad accents.

Monique Ganderton

GoodSmallSexySoccerLegsFaces

The one thing I am very strict about is that I don't like spending a lot of money on movies because the more money you spend, I think the worse that they get.

Jason Blum

MoneyI AmThinkYouMoviesMore

What I do is unusual: chordal movements that have never been used before, changing keys and modalities mid-song.

Joni Mitchell

NeverUsedChangingBeenUnusual

We need to stop spending money on death, the war in Iraq and on enhancing the lives of the people in our own country.

Dick Morris

MoneyDeathWarPeopleCountryStop

Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to.

Donald Justice

MenLearnDoorsBackWillForty

I understand that it's a huge luxury for people to dwell on the problems in Washington. Things have to be pretty tidy in your own life that you have the time to worry about what's going on in Washington. Most of us spend our time worrying about the things that are directly around us: our love lives, our careers, and our banking accounts.

Doug Liman

LifeLoveTimePeopleProblemsYou

Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it.

Bryant H. McGill

PeopleThinkKnowKnowingEvenMost

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