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Give your heart to everybody you meet. The rest is pretense.
Ethan Hawke
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Ethan Hawke
Age: 53
Born: 1970
Born: November 6
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Film Director
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Stage Actor
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Austin
Texas
Ethan Green Hawke
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If you covet fame, if you covet all the superficial accolades, you're gonna be miserable 'cause you're never going to get enough praise. If you covet contributing something substantive to movies, music, literature, then you won't be unhappy.
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The truth is that the more you get paid, the less freedom you have. They never pay you for nothing.
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I'm magically delicious.
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