David Hewson Quotes
If you think about what 'The Killing' is, it is the theatrical production, not the script.
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Student cartoonists as well as professionals should always be careful that they're not doing a cartoon that already has been done.
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For me, men and women are different. A man is genetically gifted to pull more than a woman. But at the same time, I don't consider women to be any less than men. In fact, I feel we are far more intelligent than them.
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Some people are instantly brilliant. The Kenneth Branaghs of this world are ready-formed actors at 23 - he has used his success in lots of different ways - but there are people out there for whom acting is: 'Ooh, I can get on the telly and be famous.'
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
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You are just your intelligence.
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God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.
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I understand how bureaucracies work. And that's important because our government has become a vast, huge, bloated, corrupt bureaucracy.
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The same evidence that is convincing to one person may not convince another.
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One good thing about TV Land is you're always surrounded by people who know what they're doing, in terms of your fellow actors.
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I love having a lot of content. I prefer to have constant stimulation.
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I will continue to believe that Israel's security is paramount.
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There is no better way to make peace than to talk in each other's home. Avoiding such talks is a denial of the purpose of the negotiations.
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Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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I think that in any role you have, whether TV or film, it's hard to do comedy and drama within one story.
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I don't write from dreams because I don't remember mine, but I had a fragment of an image left about twins, whose father was telling them how their lives were going to go for the next eight years. I wrote a scene about that, and then another and then another and then another, and after five months I had 732 pages.
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The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.
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Islamic fundamentalism in its activist manifestation is bad news. Religious fundamentalism in general is bad news. We know about religious fundamentalism in South Africa. Calvinist fundamentalism has been an unmitigated force of benightedness in our history.
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I want to get up there and tell entertaining stories but that are also to a certain extent clean.
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Economies are embedded inside ecosystems. Companies dependent on tourism, for example, are affected by low rainfall - there's less snow for skiers, and forest fires are more intense.
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When I walk, I try to set a fairly brisk rate. I love walking outside. I hate machines like treadmills. The path that I have chosen to walk is just city streets, but you see pretty houses, trees... my routes have some hills in them; it's not just straight walking. You have to exercise your heart and lungs.
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Here we are, we're alone in the universe, there's no God, it just seems that it all began by something as simple as sunlight striking on a piece of rock. And here we are. We've only got ourselves. Somehow, we've just got to make a go of it. We've only ourselves.
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If you think about what 'The Killing' is, it is the theatrical production, not the script.
