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.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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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.
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My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
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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.
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You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.
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The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
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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.
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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.
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I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
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Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.
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The following Wednesday, I opted to go with Random House.
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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.
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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.
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I would have worked no matter what. I was born and raised that way. It occurred to me to be married second.
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Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.
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Do the work. Do the analysis. But feel your run. Feel your race. Feel the joy that is running.
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My cure for writer's block is to step away from the thing I'm stuck on, usually a novel, and write something totally different. Besides fiction, I write poetry, screenplays, essays and journalism. It's usually not the writing itself that I'm stuck on, but thing I'm trying to write. So I often have four or five things going at once.
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I'm not afraid to blame myself for any of my own faults or just to analyze things in a different way, but I don't overanalyze, either.
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Scripts are very different to books. They are blueprints for building, not the building.
