David Hewson Quotes
Flash turns up the optical volume so that whatever lies behind the lens - be it film or a digital sensor - is a little more receptive.
Quotes to Explore
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People take things so seriously.
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'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
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I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.
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I do this thing at every party: I go to a party, I stand around for, like, 45 minutes, and then I turn to my wife and say, 'I think we should go home.' And then we leave, and then I wake up the next morning and say to my wife, 'We don't go out anymore.' It's a great trick.
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Helping out in your kid's classroom is a great way to get involved with your child's school.
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The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
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I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
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A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.
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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
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If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
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I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
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A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going to do about it?' How would you feel if somebody walked up and started taking your photograph? I don't think you'd be very happy.
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If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years.
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
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If I read something on the news that really irritates me, I get my rageful venting out on Twitter. I'm more of my light side on Instagram.
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The truth of the matter is I stayed in L.A. raising my children, and when they went to college, I packed my bags along with them and came to New York and looked for parts in the theatre, because that's always what I preferred doing.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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The worst takes its time to come, and then to pass.
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Flash turns up the optical volume so that whatever lies behind the lens - be it film or a digital sensor - is a little more receptive.
