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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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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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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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 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 love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.
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Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing.
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Plato... introduces two infinities, because both in increase and diminution there appears to be transcendency, and a progression to infinity. Though... he did not use them: for neither is there infinity in numbers by diminution or division; since unity is a minimum: nor by increase; for he extends number as far as to the decad.
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I've always said that if I couldn't be myself, first I'd want to be Eminem and then a Disney kid.
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I really wanted to write a song like Eric Clapton's 'Wonderful Tonight.' It's just such a sweet sentiment. It's so simple but so genuine.
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My shaven head is my way of saying 'I wont take no for an answer,' it is my way of saying 'I believe in my creativity and artistry.'
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Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
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How can mirrors be real if our eyes aren't real?
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There are many dramas that I would like to make: dramas based on real stories. It's approaching things from the other side.
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If you think about what 'The Killing' is, it is the theatrical production, not the script.
