David Hewson Quotes

Scripts are very different to books. They are blueprints for building, not the building.

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• You must always do what you feel is right.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • You
  • Always
  • Feel

• I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.

  

  Barry Bostwick
  • Chance
  • Production
  • Number

• Once I had started film, I suddenly said, 'Wow, I love it.' I moved there from New York. But I've always gone back to the theater, and it is more satisfying, really, because you get to give a continuous performance - no sequels.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Film
  • Performance
  • Theater

• My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.

  

  Xavier Samuel
  • Hair
  • Assets
  • Accent

• As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • People
  • Best
  • Emotional

• You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • Kids
  • You
  • Allergic

• I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Life
  • History
  • Circumstances

• Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Kind
  • Doing
  • Pressure

• Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Work
  • Art
  • Design

• That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • People
  • Again
  • Public Domain

• The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Well
  • Arts
  • Thrive

• It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Past
  • Present
  • Forever

• I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport.

  

  Naomi Benaron
  • Moment
  • Wings
  • Plane

• I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • Time
  • Women
  • Power

• Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Television
  • Try
  • Box

• The following Wednesday, I opted to go with Random House.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • House
  • Random
  • Wednesday

• If you look at the market cap increase in Apple since it created the iPod versus what's happened to the music industry, you have to say Apple got the better part of that deal.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Music
  • Better
  • Apple

• Reading is exercise for our brains in the guise of pleasure. Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that we are better for having read them.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• If you don't have something that glues the audience to the screen, you're in trouble.

  

  Neill Blomkamp

• If I knew what the photograph was going to look like, I wouldn't bother taking it. It's the voyage of discovery that fascinates me.

  

  Lois Greenfield

• Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Death
  • Justice
  • Winning

• You’ve got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn’t going to work.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Work

• I want to try different things but, most importantly, always be true to my roots and keep it organic. I'm never going to leave bachata behind. I'm always going to be a bachatero first.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • Different
  • True

• Scripts are very different to books. They are blueprints for building, not the building.

  

  David Hewson
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