Don Hewitt Quotes

He can thread a needle with a well-turned phrase.

Don Hewitt

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• Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Eye
  • Healthy
  • Beholder

• Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Everything
  • Miracle
  • Bath

• 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.

  

  Kate Baldwin
  • Attention
  • Always
  • Treat

• I always loved being fat, obviously. I'm Fat Joe.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Always
  • Loved
  • Fat

• You get very possessive about characters, you feel you can see it in your mind and you want to play it.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Mind
  • Want
  • Feel

• I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Lost
  • Myself
  • Like

• 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.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • Life
  • American
  • Feeling

• I say that human nature is the original beginning and the raw material, and deliberate effort is what makes it patterned, ordered, and exalted.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Nature
  • Beginning
  • Effort

• I eat the same foods almost every day. I have my favorites like Filipino beef broth, chicken soup with lots and lots of rice.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Day
  • Same
  • Soup

• 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.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • People
  • Growing
  • Turn

• Ain't nothing but 10 grand. What's 10 grand to me?

  

  Randy Moss
  • Me
  • Nothing
  • Grand

• I went to Carnegie Mellon.

  

  Patina Miller
  • Carnegie

• I've been listening to a lot of music by Arca.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Listening
  • Lot

• 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.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Why
  • Want
  • Ignorance

• 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.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Stupid
  • Senior

• 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.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I had to learn - since I'm divorced now and everyone is like, 'Oh my God, you're single, what's going on?' - that if I don't like to spend time with myself, how can I ask someone else to enjoy spending time with me? I'm getting to learn how to enjoy my solitude and have a good time.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Time
  • Good
  • God

• Right when I turned 18, I moved to New York, originally for school, and then dropped out and just lived in New York.

  

  Alia Shawkat
  • School

• When I was 16 years old, my brother Frank said, 'You'd better become a catcher, because you're too big and fat to do anything else.' Well, I took his advice. It was a quick way to get to the big leagues, and I've never regretted it.

  

  Joe Torre
  • Brother
  • Advice

• I do feel like food should cost more, because we aren't paying farmers a living wage. It has to cost more.

  

  Alice Waters
  • Food

• It's not that I'm a serious person; I'm playful and stuff like that, but I take characters very seriously and the work very seriously.

  

  Bryce Dallas Howard
  • Work
  • Serious

• He can thread a needle with a well-turned phrase.

  

  Don Hewitt