David Hewson Quotes
In the world of crime novels, the annual Audible Sounds of Crime awards are a pretty big deal, and I was thrilled to be shortlisted for my fifth novel in my bestselling Nic Costa series.
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For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment comes, that man will be punished as an ingrate who cannot say to God: 'Your statutes were my song in the land of exile.'
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I have selective hearing.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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No one can end it, but incidents of corruption can be reduced.
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I'm a little bit like a turducken: I'm sort of like an Indian person, wrapped in a British person, wrapped in an American kind of thing.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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I realized that I'm a soft person. I think I'm sensitive. I wanted very much to be tough and I think movie stars have a certain kind of resilience and toughness to them, but I'm quite a sensitive young lady in some respects.
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See, Ebola, like all threats to humanity, it's fueled by mistrust and distraction and division. When we build barriers amongst ourselves, and we fight amongst ourselves, the virus thrives. But unlike all threats to humanity, Ebola is one where we're actually all the same. We're all in this fight together.
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I'm so motivated to collaborate with people and help them realize the kind of collective vision.
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I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are the ones that are the haters.
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'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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I think 'The Walking Dead' is very interestingly paced. It's slow, almost like an old Western. It's also very stylised - visually, I think it's very pretty. It's more of a psychological drama than anything else.
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I'm a darned good listener.
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The times when black women have been successful in confronting and overcoming the structural and institutional sexism and racism that persists in our society have been when we are thoughtful and strategic about speaking up. It's when we've done what it takes to introduce and implement our ideas and our plans to make things better.
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I shake like a ship in a storm. It is a fact that even warming moments overwhelm me with despair, and this is why I am I.
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You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.
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Ever since I was a kid, I've wanted to set a time that nobody can touch for many years.
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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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In the world of crime novels, the annual Audible Sounds of Crime awards are a pretty big deal, and I was thrilled to be shortlisted for my fifth novel in my bestselling Nic Costa series.
