Don Hewitt Quotes
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Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.
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Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.
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Even with revivals, I don't really pay attention to previous incarnations. I always just go with the script and with the director and am willing to treat it as brand new.
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I always loved being fat, obviously. I'm Fat Joe.
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You get very possessive about characters, you feel you can see it in your mind and you want to play it.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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The perception of linked fate and that feeling of being always on the spot as a representative of the race, at least in mixed company, are features of African American life that predate affirmative action and arise outside of its presence.
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I eat the same foods almost every day. I have my favorites like Filipino beef broth, chicken soup with lots and lots of rice.
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The worst pain in the world is shame. I spend a lot of time trying to not do anything bad to anyone, but you can't live your life and not hurt people.
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It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.
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Ain't nothing but 10 grand. What's 10 grand to me?
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I went to Carnegie Mellon.
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I've been listening to a lot of music by Arca.
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Ignorance breeds antipathy. Until I got to know how computers worked, I didn't want anything to do with them. I said, 'Well, why do I need them? I write letters.' Which I still do.
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A lot of times I make people better by getting stupid, distracting, bureaucratic stuff off their desk. That's an incredibly easy way to make a senior person more productive.
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As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
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I've messed myself up more playing music than when I played football.
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With acting, I always feel conscious of what I'm doing.
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It's interesting how there are a few times in your life when you get to reinvent yourself. Like the beginning of junior high or high school, and certainly when you go off to college.
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I feel extremely guilty that I've had to put team-mates through extra media questions.
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The minute I sit down and think 'Okay, this must be KID SAFE!' my Muse develops Tourrette's and goes to lunch with Clive Barker, and my mind plunges into the gutter and I draw an appalling blank on anything that is not violent, gory, profanity laden, or depraved. So I think the only way I can ever do kid's books if I plan not to do kid's books. If that makes any sense.
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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
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What I like about 'Paper Girls' in particular is that, because we're approaching it more from a female perspective, we're able to consider the emotional states of these characters a little bit more and think more of their interiority.
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He can thread a needle with a well-turned phrase.
