David Hewson Quotes
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Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery.
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The Marine Corps is some of the best acting training you could have. Having that responsibility for people's lives, suddenly time becomes a really valuable commodity and you want to make the most of it. And for acting, you just have to do the work, just keep doing it.
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Like the United Nations, there is something inspirational about New York as a great melting pot of different cultures and traditions. And if this is the city that never sleeps, the United Nations works tirelessly, around the clock around the world.
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I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.
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Once you've done one style, you leave it for a while.
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When people come to Twitter and they want to express something in the world, the technology fades away. It's them writing a simple message and them knowing that people are going to see it.
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There is a way to share an insight into your personal life without being classless, which is what I'm trying to do.
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Without sounding negative, I'm not a huge fan of a lot of stand-up. I'm more interested in an absurd kind of theater.
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To retire is to begin to die.
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The '80s was all about this idea that women could have it all. You could have a career, and you could have a husband, and you could have children.
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I'm still a student of fashion, but I like hooking up with the people that really know how to make cool clothes.
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Every girl wishes she was Juliet in some version of their life.
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At the end of the day, there's not a day that goes by without a mass shooting.
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I believe it is in the world's interest to develop environments that fully engage women and leverage their natural talents.
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Sports can't be run by governments.
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Then mimick'd my voice with satyrical sneer,And sent me away with a Flea in my ear.
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If the prophet Job were to walk into the room at this moment, I could sit swapping hard-luck stories with him till bedtime.'
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A society that has no ideals, that discards the principles of humanitarianism, that abandons the fundamental rights and dignity of humanity, can only survive by denying truth, fairness and justice.
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I played hockey my whole life until my ambition outstripped my ability, which happens to most Canadians around 15 or 16 years old.
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When depression economics prevails, the usual rules of economic policy no longer apply: virtue becomes vice, caution is risky and prudence is folly.
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I don't think everybody thought they would have the impact they did. I knew both kids were confident in their ability and I knew they were talented.
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The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.
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Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it.
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I don't think I'd seen anything like 'The Killing.'
