David Hewson Quotes
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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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I think that being Jewish is in some ways unique because there's this conflation of race, culture and religion.
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There is a line in which populism can cross over into demagoguery. Demagoguery is the crossover where populism becomes a bad thing, and people make things up, and they assign responsibilities that aren't fair and justified, and scapegoat communities. And then it becomes a very bad thing.
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I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.
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I never went to school for directing. I studied theater with a director. I followed plays to see how a director would talk to the actors. I tried to make my own school.
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What you think means more than anything else in your life. More than what you earn, more than where you live, more than your social position, and more than what anyone else may think about you.
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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.
