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I don't mean to be highfalutin about it, but I try to limit my visibility.

John Hawkes

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John Hawkes
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: September 11
Actor
Film Actor
Television Actor
Alexandria
Minnesota
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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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Starting in the mid-'80s, I played in a band called Meat Joy, and we made our own record, toured.
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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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If you're telling a story it's always best not to play the ending.
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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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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 lived in Texas for 10 years. There were a lot of people chewing, including my dad.
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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'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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Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year.
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Motive is never easy. Sometimes it occurs to one only later.
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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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There's a lot of skeletons in my closet!
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I do not feel an exile from America in any sense.
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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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'The New York Times' thing... I think any actor would be thrilled to be profiled in that paper.
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For me and for I'm sure any actor, each role is a different challenge to prepare for in a different way.
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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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It's tough being an actor making music, because even I have a knee-jerk reaction to that.
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