David Hewson Quotes

The hearing test, which involved sitting in a quiet room listening to noises of various pitch played through headphones, confirmed the worst. I had no hearing in my left ear whatsoever.

David Hewson

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• I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.

  

  K. Flay
  • Different
  • Important
  • Think

• There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself.

  

  Kate Dickie
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.

  

  D. L. Hughley
  • Human
  • Point
  • Group

• For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Same
  • Circumstances

• I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Life
  • Up
  • Think

• I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Think
  • Strong
  • Know

• Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Time
  • She
  • Same

• Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Children
  • Nature
  • Education

• Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Good
  • Why
  • Happy

• I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Music
  • Poetry
  • Language

• I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Food
  • Know
  • Restaurant

• We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Music
  • Love
  • Weird

• NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.

  

  Xi Jinping
  • Time
  • Popular
  • Television

• I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • Done
  • Actor
  • Stage

• I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Sports
  • Aggressive
  • Leads

• The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • World
  • Political
  • Serious

• With every film that you do, you're always so nervous. You feel exposed because you know people will see this eventually. You sort of have to put all that out of your head. What will be will be. But it's nerve wracking.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Know
  • Always

• What really matters is what you do with what you have.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • You
  • Really
  • Matters

• Isn't it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Done
  • Day
  • Amazing

• I grew up listening to everything. You know, from Argentinean folk music, tango, jazz, rock, just everything.

  

  Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla Bajofondo
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Listening

• The British Museum was founded with a civic purpose: to allow the citizen, through reasoned inquiry and comparison, to resist the certainties that endanger free society and are still among the greatest threats to our liberty.

  

  Neil MacGregor
  • Society
  • Free
  • Purpose

• I'll do some running with the dogs, ride a bike; if I go to gym it's usually for cardio. I don't do weights as much; every once in while, I throw in some pushups and do leg exercises to strengthen my legs.

  

  Martina Navratilova
  • Running
  • Gym
  • Bike

• The hearing test, which involved sitting in a quiet room listening to noises of various pitch played through headphones, confirmed the worst. I had no hearing in my left ear whatsoever.

  

  David Hewson
  • Listening