Quotes by John Hawkes

“Fiction is an act of revenge”

“Its all experience. Hes still learning. The more experience he gets, the better hell be,”

“Hes off to the paddock.”

“I doubt he will run but you never rule anything out. I just want to see how he pulls up this week before I work out where we go with him,”

“We have good chances in most of the races and thats all you can ask. You need luck to win a race, anywhere.”

“The speed of the race is a concern. There is not a lot of pace in the race,”

“Hes a real nice horse, well-bred and handles himself well,”

“But hes got a long way to go to get to the Derby. Its entirely up to him how he copes along the way as to how far hell go this spring. He ran only once last season because he was still immature and is not mentally there yet. But hes doing the right things and I hope he continues to go ahead. If he cant cope, Ill turn him out.”

“The changes are big and bold, and so the Change launch campaign is big and bold. But thats the idea -- great tempting food that is surprisingly from McDonalds.”

“You couldnt miss him, he was just a natural with balance and maturity,”

One and all they are driven by the twin engines of ignorance and willful barbarism. You nod, you also are familiar with these two powerful components of our national character, ignorance and willful barbarianism. Yes, everywhere you turn, and even among the most gifted of us, the most extensively educated, these two brute forces of motivation will eventually emerge. The essential information is always missing; sensitivity is a mere veil to self-concern. We are all secret encouragers of ignorance, at heart we are all willful barbarians.

You dont even have a cross, he said. His beloved was silent. You dont even have any candles, no face of Christ, no tears. What can I say?Then she began to murmur and he was astonished.Im sorry. I will believe in the eternity of souls, I am bereaved. I will see those places where death talks solemnly to the years, where the breakers roll over their sins and their regrets, where the valley of Heaven lies before the crag of immortality, and I will believe my mother has gained peace. I have lost her. Has anyone felt such terrible grief, known that for all earthly time the eyes shall never see, the heart never beat except with her shadow? What an unhappy loss, the candles are gutted, and the face wanes for this immortality. I have lost my mother.This was her only glimpse of Heaven, and she wept so much that he was afraid. Finally she held his hand. The two brothers fired the cannon at the burial.

The birds do not sing, clouds remain of rubber, glass, steel. A stone has lodged in the engine block, the process of rusting has begun. And then darkness, a cold wind, a shred of clothing fluttering where it is snagged on one of the doors which, quite unscathed, lies flat in the grass. And then daylight, changing temperature, a night of cold rain, the short-lived presence of a scavenging rodent. And despite all this chemistry of time, nothing has disturbed the essential integrity of our tableau of chaos, the point being that if design inevitably surrenders to debris, debris inevitably reveals its innate design.

The only thing I do on a computer is play Texas Hold Em, really. Obviously my cell phone is a computer. My car is a computer. Im on computers every day without actively seeking them out.

For the last 20 years of my life, Ive had the mantra to do amazing parts with amazing people in amazing projects, so Im attracted to good story, writing and character and good people. Thats what Im always searching for and I dont think thats ever going to change.

Id said to my sweetheart a couple of days before that the SAG and Spirit Award nomination was amazing and I had no attachment to the Academy Award. I knew I was an underdog so I just decided to sleep through the announcement.

As an actor you have to have a strong vivid imagination as youre working and when the cameras rolling, but theres certainly a part of you that is aware of real life, that youre making a movie.