John Hawkes Quotes

If a musician wants to be an actor, everyone thinks that's pretty cool. But if an actor wants to play a song, even if they've been doing it for 40 years, that's bad news.

John Hawkes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 11, 1959

Topics

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I am relying on the theory that playing golf is just like riding a bike and that I haven't forgotten how.

Jennifer Wyatt

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Organizations that empower folks further down the chain or try to get rid of the big hierarchal chains and allow decision making to happen on a more local level end up being more adaptive and resilient because there are more minds involved in the problem.

Steven Johnson

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We need to always be vigilant on the sanitary issues.

Mike Johanns

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Lipstick is the most valuable weapon in a woman's make-up kit. It has the power to transform the appearance and mood of the person wearing it, and, at the same time, arouses the admiration of everybody else.

Monica Bellucci

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We've already seen proliferation. We started it with Britain, then France. Then we benignly let the Israelis do it. The Pakistanis and the Indians have recently done it. The Chinese have nuclear weapons.

William Odom

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You cannot just be working in a vast, air-conditioned loft space and think you are going to make a decent painting. Francis Bacon had a special studio built, and he felt completely emasculated in there. I have to be somewhere comfortable.

Peter Doig

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Crack the science of loyalty at scale for local business, and that becomes something that can add a huge amount of value to an important sector of our economy.

Seth Priebatsch

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I guess I understand a public intellectual to be somebody who moves public discourse forward: someone who either says something new or says something that everybody knows to be true but is afraid to express.

Lionel Shriver

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When I'm being funny, I try not to offend. I don't think much of what I've done has been in really ghastly taste. I don't think I have embarrassed many people or distressed them.

Kurt Vonnegut

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Everyone agrees that our ultimate goal is to establish a free, open and democratic Iraqi government and bring our men and women in uniform home as soon as possible.

James T. Walsh

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I was under the impression I had signed a three-year contract. I want to be back. I expect to be back. I will be back.

Greg Maddux

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There's a lot of young females doing R&B in England who are extremely talented and deserve more light on their stories.

Ella Mai

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