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Noah Hawley Quotes

Having written for film and television, I had little interest in turning 'The Good Father' into a Hollywood thriller. I was writing a novel, and novels demand that the writer goes deeper, both emotionally and thematically.

Noah Hawley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: producer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1967

Topics

Good Father Writing Television Film

It isn't that every company is going to be successful. The law of averages shows that 80% of companies are going to fail.

Troy Carter

Law Company Fail Successful Going

I stopped performing because I don't have the temperament of a performer. You have to want to do the same thing over and over again. Once I got it right, I didn't want to do it again. I always use the analogy of a novelist who has to read his novel in public night after night. I just didn't want to do it.

Tom Lehrer

Night You Want Right Always Over

I'm the youngest of four. I have two older sisters and an older brother and was raised by a single mother. Basically, my household was just full of life. Everything was lit all the time.

Little Simz

Life Mother Time Brother Everything

The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before.

Jon Lee Anderson

Medicine Look Bad Mercy Refugees

The only thing you can really say in a poem is what you really, really deeply believe.

Jonathan Galassi

Believe You Say Poem Only Really

The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don't have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.

Chris Pine

Perspective Control View You Choice

The thing I like most about books is that anybody can afford them. They have an innate valuelessness.

Chris Ware

Books Like Most Anybody Afford Them

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

Confucius

Goals Wisdom Action Adjust Steps

I've lived so deep under masks, my interior was built to satisfy me alone - I have lived almost 60 years alone, mentally, and quite content to have it so.

Alice Hastings Bradley

Alone Me Deep Content Interior

The subjectivization of the universal in art brings the universal downward on one hand, while on the other it helps raise the individual toward the universal.

Piet Mondrian

Art Hand Individual Universal Raise

The point of our demographics is that we're not having as many children and the population is stagnant, if not declining. So without immigration, we're not going to have the population.

Susan Oliver

Children Immigration Without Stagnant

I'm jamming 'Black Sabbath Vol. 4' all the time. Zappa's 'Cruising With Ruben & The Jets.' A lot of Gong lately. Some Hawkwind. The Residents' 'Duck Stab' is amazing. Some Fugs. Lots of stuff, man. I'm pretty schizophrenic with records.

Ty Segall

Time Man Amazing Black Duck Pretty