#yea

My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead. ↗

— John C. Hawkes

#before #died #father #homestead #i

Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year. ↗

— John C. Hawkes

#almost #day #days #every #every day

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 lived in Texas for 10 years. ↗

— John Hawkes

#lived #texas #years

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 is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#before #black #black holes #case #else

With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will be a slow process, because one will have to wait about 18 years to see the effect of changes to the genetic code. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#about #because #changes #code #complexity

I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#human race #i #into #next #race

Maybe I don't have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#disease #i #kills #kind #maybe

There's a lot of people out there who have seen us once somewhere in a pub or heard our songs late night on radio. We'd done four years of it before we'd even released a single. It's put us in good stead. ↗

— Dan Hawkins

#done #even #four #good #heard