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The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language.

John Hawkes

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John Hawkes
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: September 11
Actor
Film Actor
Television Actor
Alexandria
Minnesota
Lyricism
Magnificence
Torment
Exists
Language
Thing

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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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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 generally play strong people and scary people.
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Motive is never easy. Sometimes it occurs to one only later.
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It's nice to sometimes get things out of life, rather than stealing from other artists. I'm trying to steal from the real people.
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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'm just looking for the best story being told by the best people and the best part that I can find. If those things add up, I want to be a part of it whether it's a studio film or, more likely in that instance, an independent film.
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Part of the way that I work is to observe.
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There's a lot of skeletons in my closet!
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As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.
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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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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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My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.
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I don't mean to be highfalutin about it, but I try to limit my visibility.
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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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If you're telling a story it's always best not to play the ending.
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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 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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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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