John Hawkes Quotes
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I met Robert Rodriguez working on a movie called 'Roadracers.'
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Motive is never easy. Sometimes it occurs to one only later.
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A lot of times, you just don't get the jobs you want to get.
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To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.
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I went to a performance of 'The Crucible' at the Guthrie when I was a sophomore in high school, and I knew right away that that's what I wanted to do
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It's nice to sometimes get things out of life, rather than stealing from other artists. I'm trying to steal from the real people.
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When we lived in Juneau, Alaska, it was a town of about 7,000 people, and totally isolated; the only way to get to it was by ship.
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I have to be careful of what TV shows I choose, particularly ones that have commercials in them, because it's going to be a different kind of television show.
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My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.
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As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.
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It's probably odd for someone to read an interview where the interviewee is worried about exposure while they're talking in an interview.
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Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year.
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I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once abandoned these familiar ways of thinking about fiction, totality of vision or structure was really all that remained.
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You never really forget who you are. If you did, you'd need to seek some professional help
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I lived in Texas for 10 years. There were a lot of people chewing, including my dad.
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The writer should always serve as his own angleworm —and the sharper the barb with which he fishes himself out of blackness, the better.
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Part of the way that I work is to observe.
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It's hard to get concert tickets.
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It's hard to tell whether the ship or airplane - they're all the same, I'm convinced - is male or female; it may shift back and forth.
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If you're telling a story it's always best not to play the ending.
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There's a lot of skeletons in my closet!
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I had to go to Sunday school once or twice in my life, and that's where I commented someplace on hearing.
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I don't have actor training, myself.
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I've never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it's not sour grapes to say that in the best films that I've always enjoyed, the cliched leading man type isn't a part of the picture.
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Starting in the mid-'80s, I played in a band called Meat Joy, and we made our own record, toured.
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Even the small amount of infamy I have makes me uncomfortable - on a personal level and on a professional level.
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I don't think there are in life, pure darkness or pure light. Everyone's got a little of everything.
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People have said unkind things and you kind of have to, if you happen to read it, you have to just, you know, move on.
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I do not feel an exile from America in any sense.
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I don't mean to be highfalutin about it, but I try to limit my visibility.
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