#ted

My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano. ↗

— John C. Hawkes

#mother #much #piano #play #she

When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately. ↗

— John C. Hawkes

#good #how #i #immediately #knew

For the last 20 years of my life, I've had the mantra to do amazing parts with amazing people in amazing projects, so I'm attracted to good story, writing and character and good people. That's what I'm always searching for and I don't think that's ever going to change. ↗

— John Hawkes

#amazing #amazing people #attracted #change #character

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. ↗

— John Hawkes

#crucible #guthrie #high #high school #i

It seems like every year Hollywood makes an attempt to retell the Manson story, and I just couldn't be less interested in it. It's not really our crowning achievement as a civilisation. I'm not saying it shouldn't be done, but it just bores me. ↗

— John Hawkes

#attempt #bores #civilisation #crowning #done

It's not like every director in every movie is seeking me out by any means, there are a lot of things I'm not suited for, a lot of things I'm not interested in, and a lot of things that directors wouldn't be interested in me for. ↗

— John Hawkes

#director #directors #every #i #interested

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#danger #destroying #greed #increasingly #inwards

Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#created #different #different kinds #kinds #many

Among physicists, I'm respected I hope. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#hope #i #physicists #respected

We're real people and we're a band that's been playing on the scene for a long time. We've made a lot of friends, and one enemy we've always had was the NME. They've always basically slated us and they've basically never ever written about the music. ↗

— Dan Hawkins

#always #band #basically #been #enemy