Hewson Quotes & Sayings

Especially for people who are unknown, it's easier to get a TV show because you don't have to put a certain amount of people in movie theaters for a box office weekend. It's really difficult to get a great lead role in some big film, if nobody knows you. — Eve Hewson

The best employees are those who bring real energy and initiative to the job. I like to know whether you're the kind of person who can set priorities, take initiative, and drive results right from the beginning. — Marillyn Hewson

Opinions are 10 a penny. In the spin-driven, PR-controlled world of the 21st century, hard facts are rare indeed. — David Hewson

I was just absolutely exhausted. The media said I've been treated for a nervous breakdown. All that stuff I just took as people taking the opportunity when you're down to give you a kick. — John Hewson

I got a bit enamoured with bigger houses and things like that. — John Hewson

Although I'm deaf in only my left ear, when there is noise all around, I'm unable to distinguish sounds and can't hear anything. — David Hewson

Of course, we're so lucky to be in a time where that's not our reality anymore. I just thought it was very interesting to go back to that time now, and to look at all of these issues that are still relevant today, but just in such a different way, and to see how we approach them and try to overcome them. Yeah, we've come a long way with medicine and women's health in the Western world, but in a lot of parts of the rest of the world, that's still a huge issue. — Eve Hewson

To send our troops, our ships, our planes to this war is ridiculous. — John Hewson

Lympne Castle opens its doors to visitors during the summer only. It is privately owned, and more an interesting medieval manor than a castle. — David Hewson

To make us a terrorist target in a region that is full of terrorism is dumb and unforgiveable. — John Hewson

No one knows who I am and no-one cares. I could jump in front of a camera man and he'd just tell me to get out of the way. — Eve Hewson

TV has a three storyline structure, but 'The Killing' takes on that structure with such ambition. — David Hewson

I want to do more audio originals because I think that it is a fascinating medium. If you think about it, this is original storytelling. — David Hewson

Tony Blair will probably get thrown out by his party. — John Hewson

Stand outside De Eland, on the Berenstraat Bridge over the Prinsengracht, and you see what real Amsterdam life is like. — David Hewson

I have favorite authors from a lifetime of reading, so there are some I'll automatically read every time they have a new novel. Included in them: Robert Goddard, Jeffery Deaver, Sophie Kinsella, Katherine Neville, Greg Isle, Laurie King, Lee Child, Lisa Tucker, Susan Howatch, Paul Auster. Barry Eisler, David Hewson, Tracy Chevalier. — M.J. Rose

My tutor was a film director on the side, and she introduced me to film. She then put me in one of her short films, and it came out of that. That's when I fell in love with the process of making a film. After that, I was about 15 and I was like, "This is what I've gotta do." So, I started taking acting lessons, and then I applied to college to do acting. I got an agent, and it all just happened. — Eve Hewson

Thank god, I can't sing because that would be a lot of pressure. But yeah, it's nice doing something different and that's something I really feel like is my own passion. It's also connected. Everything is connected in the entertainment business, so I have the support of my parents because they've been through it all before and they can give me advice. — Eve Hewson

It's funny because when I first met with Carmen, she said, "Have you ever thought about doing TV?" And I was like, "No, not really, but I'd audition for TV." And she said, "That's where the roles are for women now. That's where you can go and get a really great part." — Eve Hewson

It's not just the war itself. It's what you do after the war and what structure you put in place and how you make that structure work. — John Hewson

Scarborough never really began to live until the summer of 1964 when the Beatles played the Futurist Theatre, and no one in the audience, least of all me, heard anything but the screaming. — David Hewson

Edam and Gouda are genuine Dutch cheeses, but the real thing is a lot less bland than the varieties most of us experience in the U.K. — David Hewson

I couldn't imagine working in a hospital where there's just death, everywhere. But for a lot of women, it was their only option. They couldn't get other jobs. — Eve Hewson

Viral infections, such as mumps, rubella and meningitis, cause inflammation of the inner ear or auditory nerve, resulting in permanent damage. — David Hewson

I don't think I'd seen anything like 'The Killing.' — David Hewson

I grew up with Frank Sinatra and it has taken me a long time to get to a place where I really enjoy [U2's] music. — Ali Hewson

There are any number of reasons for visiting Filey. The beach is clean, long, and rarely crowded. The countryside is bold and handsome, with one maritime feature that deserves to be better known: the long, thin rock finger of the Brigg, pointing into the chilly grey waters of the North Sea. — David Hewson

I think it's really important that people can look at this show and be offended by it. Hopefully, then people will understand that this is still very much a problem we need to solve in other parts of the world. At least we have antibiotics. — Eve Hewson

The reality is, it will be a significant conflict going for many, many months, if not longer. Saddam Hussein is not a fool. He hasn't been sitting there waiting to get shot for 13 years. — John Hewson

I don't have family members calling me and saying, "Is this rumor about you in the newspaper true?," because they know it's all bullshit. I already have that support system, and it's actually been really helpful. My parents have been in the entertainment business for so long that they really know what not to do. — Eve Hewson

There were times when I wondered if I was doing the right thing, studying when I could have been going to auditions. — Eve Hewson

We allow each other to pursue our goals. I wouldn't want to be married to someone who was not happy with what they were doing with their life and Bono wouldn't either. — Ali Hewson

Silence is best. — John Hewson

If you look at the play very closely, this is a thirdhand report of what a wonderful hero Macbeth is for saving Scotland. And in the next scene, he's planning to murder Duncan, and you never really know why or what's behind Macbeth. — David Hewson

In the world of crime novels, the annual Audible Sounds of Crime awards are a pretty big deal, and I was thrilled to be shortlisted for my fifth novel in my bestselling Nic Costa series. — David Hewson

The truth about the Costa del Sol is that what endures, what is worthwhile, is what is Spanish. — David Hewson

It's a long ride home with nothing but me for company. I bore myself sometimes. Not often. Just now and again. — David Hewson

the average branch of WH Smith today does not seem progressive or cutting edge, but back in the 1980s they were a major and dynamic force on the High Street. — Andrew Hewson

Perhaps," he continued, "this capacity for evil is in all of us, then, and it's largely down to fortune whether we encounter the circumstance that breathes life into it or not. Just as it's luck that determines when or if that faulty gene breaks and gives you cancer or Marfan or the physique of an Olympian. — David Hewson

I've been arguing this for months. This is not our war. This is not a war we should be in. Australia's better spending its time negotiating with North Korea. — John Hewson

I think the Prime Minister has embarked on a journey and he has no idea where he's taking us. — John Hewson

I know how I want to try and live my life. I know I don't want to leave any darkness behind me. — Ali Hewson

I always wanted to go to Sundance. — Eve Hewson

I think we should all have a responsibility not to affect other people in a negative way. — Ali Hewson

There is an argument for believing that the entire process of writing a piece of fiction is simply a thinly-controlled and highly-internalised nervous breakdown designed, with a bit of luck, to produce something worthwhile at the end. — David Hewson

The English Channel is such a narrow little puddle, you cannot help wondering why no invader has succeeded in crossing it since 1066. — David Hewson

My life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury. It means nothing. — David Hewson

The antidote to death was and always would be the heat and fury of life itself. — David Hewson

Because I'm Irish, I've always done an accent. Not doing an accent is off-putting because I sound like me. I love doing an accent. Doing the accent from West Virginia was great, and we had to get specific with it. — Eve Hewson

Once you get over the culture shock, Filey is a pleasant spot, particularly at the beginning or end of the summer, when the hotels are half full. The brave go in winter, when the wind can be bitter and biting and Filey resumes its real life as a tiny, introverted fishing community. — David Hewson

Hussein has a strategy. I'm sure he'll implement that strategy, and it would be to our detriment. We're embarking on an exercise about which we know nothing. — John Hewson

A nation's not a child, for God's sake ... It's like a wild horse you tame by breaking it. Or a fiery woman you slap till she sees sense and warms your bed. — David Hewson

The bronze dwarfs give you the first clue that Wroclaw is no ordinary city. They lurk all over the place, carousing outside pubs, snoring at the doors of hotels, peeking out from behind the bars of the old city jail. — David Hewson

For most of the movies that I've done, we've shot in a contemporary house, in contemporary clothes, speaking in a contemporary way. So, I really enjoy that. It really helps. — Eve Hewson

Alfriston is a compact village set around a rather traffic-weary High Street, mainly of old, timbered buildings. The principal sights lie to the east on the river side. — David Hewson

If you were just to look at Lockheed Martin, you'd see a lot of women in senior roles in our company and, not only that, our customers, so I don't consider it an old boys' club. — Marillyn Hewson

In a sense, there is no such thing as a bargain in computing. Models which are popular sell for the price they are supposed to fetch for the best part of their product cycle. — David Hewson

That's the thing about acting - you can't fake it. — Eve Hewson

I had this habit of an academic of answering the question. I should have fobbed it off. — John Hewson

Surprisingly few outsiders know about the Cuckmere Valley, and it is not uncommon for people to confuse Alfriston with Alfreton in the Derbyshire Peak District. — David Hewson

Flash turns up the optical volume so that whatever lies behind the lens - be it film or a digital sensor - is a little more receptive. — David Hewson

I've never been interested in things that sparkle and shine; I'm more interested in people. — Ali Hewson

We've lost sight of our role in the region and our view of our colleagues in the region. — John Hewson

You'll have an unbelievable sense of calm when you have a baby. — Ali Hewson

Few areas which are not publicly owned can boast as many footpaths as the Cuckmere Valley. For a short walk, a footbridge across the river leads back to the little hamlet of Milton Street, where another classic local pub, the Sussex Ox, provides an admirable lunch. — David Hewson

In Filey, you eat early to prepare for the highlight of the evening: social intercourse of a kind one thought relegated to Stanley Holloway monologues. — David Hewson

The hearing test, which involved sitting in a quiet room listening to noises of various pitch played through headphones, confirmed the worst. I had no hearing in my left ear whatsoever. — David Hewson

We spent today sending men to hell. What's more natural than to pass the night dreaming of procreating a few more to take their place? — David Hewson

People see fashion as superficial and shallow, but it's actually not. As an industry, it can really change how things happen and change trade for countries that really need it. — Ali Hewson

The path from Hythe leads, for a little while, along the line of the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch railway, whose 15in-gauge steam trains run throughout the year from Hythe to Dungeness. — David Hewson

If you think about what 'The Killing' is, it is the theatrical production, not the script. — David Hewson

Talking to Lee Child and discovering, from his chapter in The Chopin Manuscript, that he's even more of an audio geek than I am (as his chapter in Chopin proves). — David Hewson

To watch. To wait. To wonder at a world in chaos,' the girl said. 'And hope one day you fools might learn. — David Hewson

Business is tough, and the fashion industry is particularly tough. — Ali Hewson

Oh, it's the first big thing I've really done. My first job out of college was working with Steven Soderbergh. I was telling my acting teachers, "I did it, you guys!" — Eve Hewson

I'm not tied to any particular political line. — John Hewson

Nobody strikes a medal for the Royal Military Canal campaign any more, but a pint in the back bar of the ancient Mermaid Inn, perched in front of one of the biggest and oldest inglenooks you're ever likely to see, is its own reward. — David Hewson

I've no need of reasons. The doing's enough.'
Well said for once, the girl thought. The doing was everything. — David Hewson

I get called 'Memphis Eve,' but my first name is Eve. I know Memphis is in there somewhere, but on my passport I'm 'Eve Sunny Day Hewson.' — Eve Hewson

The only person you resent is yourself. — John Hewson

I just love doing different things, which is what being a working author is like. — David Hewson

Authors do this for a living, and if you take their work for nothing, you are depriving them of a living. — David Hewson

The origin of nursing started out with prostitutes, who would go care for people in jail. That was back when nobody wanted to go to the hospital because it was basically a place that you went to die. It started progressing with the visiting nurses in the South. The women started wearing these outfits to make it look like they were more sophisticated and so that they could be more respected. They started recruiting women from good education backgrounds because they wanted to make it a more respected profession. — Eve Hewson

In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat. — David Hewson

In London, the home of the quick deal is that outer ring of the seven circles of hell, Tottenham Court Road, where, as a rule, finding something with an advertised price is as likely as spotting a mermaid under Vauxhall Bridge. — David Hewson

I think I always knew I was going to somehow be on a stage. I was quite an extrovert, as a child. And I did a lot of music, when I was younger, so I thought I was going to go into music, but I fell into acting, in a really weird way. — Eve Hewson

Historic Amsterdam, that old part you first see when you turn up at Centraal Station, may have its monuments, but it's also the most tawdry and overcrowded part of the city. — David Hewson

Why do we use flash at all? Because photography is not the same as eyesight. We can see in low-light situations where cameras, dependent upon a physical process to record visual information, are half blind. — David Hewson

The list of Scarborough's rock credentials could go on forever. — David Hewson

There are no secrets.' The thing smiled, showing a row of even, childlike teeth. 'None worth keeping. Only the ones you hide from yourself, which are the most damaging and hurtful of all. Truth is truth, and lie is lie. Tell yourself one's the other and all the world turns kilter. — David Hewson

I never wanted to separate from either wife. It was accumulated stress. We had virtually no time to ourselves. After politics we were both working very hard to establish new careers. — John Hewson

Do I dream you? Or you dream me? Or does someone, something bigger than all' - her hands swept the vast constellations above them - 'this beauteous calamity, dream everything we see and more? — David Hewson

Flash photography can be horrible. In the hands of an expert who knows how to bounce all that searing bright light in the right direction, it may make an impossible picture workable. — David Hewson

You can live your life being scared of losing someone, and at the end of the day, if he is going to leave you, he'll leave you, and that's it. — Ali Hewson

Romney Marsh remains one of the last great wildernesses of south-east England. Flat as a desert, and at times just as daunting, it is an odd, occasionally eerie wetland straddling the coastal borders of Kent and Sussex, rich in birds, local folklore and solitary medieval churches. — David Hewson

You speak as if this is a good world with a little evil in it. Rubbish. It's a hellish one where the best a man can do is put a little sanity back and look after his own. — David Hewson

She sits in a tub full to the brim, her chin submerged, her knees bent and revealed. She feels the water drift as her lungs expand and deflate with every breath. She images the space inside her it doesn't touch. — B.E. Hewson

Low light demanded 'fast' film, usually ISO 400 or higher; the fastest available would be about ISO 1000. When the sun was bright, you would reach for ISO 64 to avoid the burned-out look of overexposure. — David Hewson

The problem is not that the PC you need always costs more than you can afford. The problem is that whatever the price, it is still too much. — David Hewson

The only sheets I'll ever long for are my own. — David Hewson