Don Hewitt Quotes
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I recognize that I'm probably the luckiest novelist in recent memory, because Sherman Alexie, a writer I greatly admire, raved about my book on 'The Colbert Report,' and then Mr. Colbert himself urged his viewers to buy it - on his show and on Twitter.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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I like being unconventional.
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There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.
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Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
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Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.
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Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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I was a confident, outgoing little boy. If you're an only child, you're living in a very linguistically adult world, and you've got to keep up. So I did. Maybe I was slightly annoying.
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I try not to do too much self-analysis apart from when I'm actually paying $170 an hour for it. I try to keep it in the room.
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The more lucidly we think, the more we are cut off: the more deeply we enter into reality, the less we can think.
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I guess one of the most magnificent things a novel can do is to change your perspective on the world, and to give it some sense of wonder, and that's what I find so exciting in writing fantasy, especially fantasy for children. Because already, I think children have a very special and unusual way of seeing the world.
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The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Love is in the giver, not the gift.
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You know that clicker? It's going to change the world more than any other thing.
