John Hawks Quotes

#1. I worked for John Ford, Howard Hawks, Henry Hathaway, Raoul Walsh - I worked for some real good directors.

Richard Farnsworth

#2. FBI Girl is touching and funny, inspiring and tragic, enlightening and sad. I closed the book with tears in my eyes and admiration in my heart for the girl Maura Conlon was and the writer she became.

Beverly Donofrio

#3. Every new experience is unusual. The rest of life is just sleep and committee meetings.

John Twelve Hawks

#4. Many physicists these days sound like the Delphic oracle - with equations.

John Twelve Hawks

#5. When a person speculates about my identity, it reveals something about their own background and preferences. If the canvas is blank; the only thing people can see on its surface is themselves.

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#6. We never read the full explanatory surroundings of marvelously exciting things when we have no occasion to suppose that some irresponsible scribbler is trying to defraud us; we skip all that, and hasten to revel in the blood-curdling particulars and be happy.

Mark Twain

#7. Without private thoughts and actions, we can never truly be free.

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#8. John Wayne represents more force, more power than anyone else on the screen.

Howard Hawks

#9. Art moves them and they don't know what they've been moved by and they get quite drunk on it.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#10. Although I write dystopian fiction, I don't believe in dystopian fantasies.

John Twelve Hawks

#11. True freedom is tolerant. It gives people the right to live and think in new ways.

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#12. The way a woman or a man handles themselves, at a certain age I can't blame you for the way you act, because somebody didn't bring you up right, and the betterment is why I have a foundation titled Angels and Hearts. That's why I have Trey's Angels: to let women know that they are angels.

Trey Songz

#13. I believe that Judy Garland's artistry was so fine. I mean, when people say: 'oh, she brought so much of her life to her music', I don't really believe that. I believe that she didn't have to. She just was a moving human being. That was her gift.

Bette Midler

#14. Walking is easy ... but it requires faith to find the right path.

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#15. Life is dangerous. That's what makes it interesting.

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#16. Almost every important choice in our lives is really just an expression of hope.

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#17. We are each called to go through life reclaiming the planet an inch at a time until the Garden of Eden grows green again.

Joan D. Chittister

#18. Human beings have an almost unlimited capacity for self-delusion. We can justify any amount of sadness if it fits our own particular standard of reality.

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#19. As a kid I watched the Academy Awards on television and always wanted one - or several - like one of my favorite directions, John Ford. He won six. On the other hand, Orson Welles, who's on the top of my list, didn't win any. Alfred Hitchcock didn't win any. Howard Hawks didn't win any.

Martin Scorsese

#20. You can't truly hear your own voice until the shouting around you disappears. New ideas and possibilities - our own ideas, our own possibilities - will occur only when we step away from the Virtual Panopticon.

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#21. He was already in hell, already dead as far as he was concerned. Do your worst, you evil bitch.

Donna Grant

#22. We have all been brought into the world for some reason, and we must wonder why and hope to learn.

Dean Koontz

#23. 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' made me want to make films. I am wild about the films of John Carpenter, Ridley Scott, Howard Hawks and Sam Peckinpah.

Neil Marshall

#24. I made 'Rio Bravo' with John Wayne. It worked out pretty well and we both liked it, so a few years later we decided to make it again. Worked out pretty good that time, too.

Howard Hawks

#25. When people decide that a certain way of faith is destined and inevitable, hatred and intolerance follow. Instead of saying, 'The Light is within you, choose the Light,' the message becomes 'Agree with our version of history or we'll kill you.

John Twelve Hawks

#26. Human beings are tool-making animals. Since the prehistoric era, we have created and used a wide variety of objects.
But now a significant change is about to occur.
In the near future, we will simply become another object that can be monitored, tracked and controlled within a vast machine.

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#27. If privacy had a gravestone it might read: 'Don't Worry. This Was for Your Own Good.

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#28. Anyone who steps back for a minute and observes our modern digital world might conclude that we have destroyed our privacy in exchange for convenience and false security.

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#29. Impatience turns an ague into a fever, a fever to the plague, fear into despair, anger into rage, loss into madness, and sorrow to amazement.

Jeremy Taylor

#30. In many traditions, hawks are sacred: Apollo's messengers for the Greeks, sun symbols for the ancient Egyptians and, in the case of the Lakota Sioux, embodiments of clear vision, speed and single-minded dedication.

John Burnside

#31. When I got untethered from the comfort of religion, it wasn't a loss of faith for me, it was a discovery of self. I had faith that I'm capable enough to handle any situation. There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and [that] I'm responsible.

Brad Pitt

#32. Life is short. Do not forget about the most important things in our life, living for other people and doing good for them.

Marcus Aurelius

#33. Saved by the Blood. Damned by the Flesh.

John Hawks

#34. I find it somewhat reassuring that I'm not the only one who feels like I should be running around shouting, Where's the script? Where's the script? If only I had a script I'd know what the freak I'm supposed to be doing.

Patricia Briggs