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John Hawkes Quotes

I understand why people achieve a level of fame and disappear, I never understood it before, but it's an attractive prospect to walk away from it all.

John Hawkes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Walk People Achieve Why Understand

Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write.

Joan D. Vinge

Perfect Goddess Write Through Head

The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work.

Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

Work Medical Physics Become Trend

I was excited that my films would finally see the light of day and people would see them. But I never imagined that such nice things would be said about a lot of my films.

Jessica Chastain

Light Day People Said Nice Never

Excess dietary salt is most notorious for increasing blood pressure. Americans have a 90 percent lifetime probability of developing high blood pressure - so even if your blood pressure is normal now, if you continue to eat the typical American diet, you will be at risk.

Joel Fuhrman

Pressure American Diet You Salt Now

We have always said that advertising is just the icing on the cake. It is not the cake.

Meg Whitman

Cake Advertising Said Always Just

I saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying.

Robert Quine

Suicide Pretty Saw Horrifying

The odds of being successful are the same for every group that is educated in America. It's just that the group that is not wealthy is 95 percent of the population. So if there are 100 successful people in a room, probably 95 out of 100 came from more modest means.

Michael Eisner

People America Group More Odds Out

I grew up in Wahpeton, N.D., and I didn't leave until I was 18, and I've kept going back.

Louise Erdrich

Back Leave Up Going Until Grew

I used to think that in order to be lean, I had to under-eat.

Lizzie Armitstead

Think Order Used Lean Had

Working improvisationally in my studio with dancers, it's completely different. We don't have any starting point; we don't have an end point. We don't have anything we are trying to show or do. The picture evolves from nowhere.

Lois Greenfield

End Picture Trying Starting Anything

When you are writing literary writing, you are communicating something subtextual with emotions and poetry. The prose has to have a voice; it's not just typing. It takes a while to get that voice.

Joyce Carol Oates

Poetry Writing Voice You Emotions

I think I'm low-maintenance.

Douglas Booth

Think I Think Low-Maintenance