Top 92 Hemmings Quotes
#1. The entire island knows our father, Fred Hemmings, Jr. - kids, adults, surfers, the governor, grocery clerks, gang members who call our house at night and threaten to kill us as soon as they get out of jail. Fred was a world-champion surfer and is now a well-known, controversial politician.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#2. 'Deep Red' (1975) is my favorite movie. The character David Hemmings plays is very much based on my own personality. It was a very strong film, very brutal, and of course the censors were upset. It was cut by almost an hour in some countries.
Dario Argento
#3. The sun is getting warmer on my back, and I wish the air could stay the way it was moments before: the air of promise, the elements brewing but not quite cooked.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#4. Sometimes you're writing a song and you have an image whilst writing a song. I don't think you ever base a songwriting process around a video, but when you're writing a song sometimes it'll be a very visual song.
Luke Hemmings
#5. Get used to it. She'll be there for the rest of your life. She'll be there on birthdays, at Christmastime, when you get your period, when you graduate, have sex, when you marry, have children, when you die. She'll be there and she won't be there.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#6. You know you're tired when you fall asleep in the shower.
Luke Hemmings
#7. In putting setting to work, I like to think about long shots and close-ups. The long shot is the overall view of the place in which the characters live - the island, the town, the wide sweep of place. Then we narrow in. The close-up, the tight focus, makes the place different from anywhere else.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#8. I think grief and fear are going to come to him suddenly. They'll be undiluted and words won't work. We're all going to get hit and won't know how to hit back. I wish I knew the answers, how to help myself and the people who will hurt all around me.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#9. People go surfing before work and paddling afterward. My husband is from Wisconsin, and he goes to work in his Hawaiian shirt.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#10. People thought I was dead. But I wasn't. I was just directing 'The A-Team.'
David Hemmings
#11. After college, I moved to Breckenridge, Colorado, and went snowboarding every day. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew what I didn't want to do. So I applied to grad school for writing, and I just gave it a shot and took it from there.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#12. You can't compare and rank heartache. Pain is pain is pain. There is no precise measurement. No quarter cup.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#13. Fuck', I think. What a beautiful word. If I could say only one thing for the rest of my life, that would be it.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#14. I bet in big cities you can walk down the street scrowling and no one will ask you what's wrong or encourage you to smile, but everyone here has the attitude that we're lucky to live in Hawaii; paradise reigns supreme. I think paradise can go fuck itself.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#15. Calum offered to paint my nails but I said no because he always uses the wrong shade of purple.
Luke Hemmings
#17. Sometimes I loved the disruptive student in class who livened up lectures with wisecracks - it put a spin on things, added flavor, made me laugh. Other times, I wished the heckler would just shut up so I could learn something.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#18. I tilt my face up and inhale, willing my surroundings to enter me somehow and to remind me how small I am.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#19. I miss her despite the fact that she envisioned the rest of her life without me.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#20. Jonathan Franzen seems like the grumpiest guy, and he doesn't seem to like much of anything, so I really don't care what he has to say.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#21. Nothing has changed that much, even during filmmaking for 'The Descendants.' I wrote. I took the kids to school. I cleaned the house. And I had dinner with George Clooney.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#22. I live in a market town in a mill house with the river running both sides and Somerfield's car park only a loose nine iron away, and I really, really, really love it.
David Hemmings
#23. One day during filming, George Clooney was wearing his surf shirt and board shorts, and my six-year-old daughter was in the background as an extra, playing in the sand - playing herself. She and Clooney suddenly looked equally Hawaiian, equally related to the place I call home.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#24. I don't ask what Alex sees in him because I'm afraid my disapproval will make her latch on to him even more. That's how it works. I'll have to pretend he doesn't bother me and that I don't want to drown him in the bay.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#25. The best thing about being a fiction writer is that where the truth is inconvenient, I could veer away.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#26. I was, in my day, one of the best directors of episodic TV around.
David Hemmings
#27. I love film and have taken a stab at a screenplay. I love writing dialogue and found it highly enjoyable.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#28. Writing has never been like therapy for me, but blogging comes a little closer - I can smack-talk freely and frequently, and this is good for me.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#29. I would never, ever, ever, ever say I have regretted the 'A-Team,' 'Magnum PI' or 'Murder She Wrote' or any of the others I did - and if you mention a television series, I'm sure I had a hand in it.
David Hemmings
#30. With families, no matter what kind you inherit, at some point you want to announce that you belong to it.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#31. I always felt a little bit of an outsider, especially because I grew up on Oahu.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#32. That's how you know you love someone, I guess, when you can't experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#33. They have a voice and I love seeing them in such a positive way. - JC, 15, USA
Jazmin Williams
#34. Because feeling love does make you feel superior. Until you find out you aren't loved back.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#35. I'm sorry," I say. "I didn't give you everything you wanted. I wasn't everything you wanted. You were everything I wanted.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#36. Dropped a peanut in my belly button, do I eat it or ...
Luke Hemmings
#38. I picture Cully tromping through that high, deep snow. That's how I feel physically from all of this. Moving through grief like it's a thick drift, exhausting but enlivening. It makes your muscles ache. It makes you feel you've inhabited your body completely.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#39. When you're a child, you crave formal recognition; you crave ceremony, celebration, certification of proof.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#40. Why is it so hard to articulate love yet so easy to express disappointment?
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#41. I'm proud of being from Hawaii, and I'm proud of being Hawaiian, but I'm more than that, too.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#43. I quite like being mobbed. After all, it is extremely nice to be recognised. That's what acting is all about - being recognised.
David Hemmings
#46. I lean down so that my face is right in front of hers and whisper, 'He doesn't love you. I love you.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#47. We live in a world that someone can say anything about anyone and it can be seen as the truth.
Luke Hemmings
#48. When a place comes across vividly in a novel, it's often compared to a character. I can remember writing teachers who encouraged me to treat setting as if it were a character, to give it three dimensions, to make it come alive, jump off the page.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#49. I'd always dread this part of being a guest in the morning - the tentative yielding into the house's normal traffic.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#50. I felt like I haven't had the typical experience of a novelist whose book becomes a movie.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#53. The first song Ben taught me was Deep Purple's 'Smoke on the Water', when i was 10, and I would play it on the top string with one finger. I did it so much that there was a massive crease in the skin and i think I must have driven everyone crazy, playing that same song all the time,
5 Seconds Of Summer
#54. Time is a curious thing: For years you take it for granted, then one day something happens and you are reminded of how precious it really is...
Jason R. Hemmings
#56. It's useless to criticize things that people love and something that speaks to them.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#57. Two days a week, I go to my office at The Grotto, a writer's collective in San Francisco. I get there at 8:15 and write until around 1 or 2 P.M.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#58. Almost too hot for skinny jeans, the impossible becomes the possible.
Luke Hemmings
#59. Tragedy brings change, and that's what I'm interested in most - how people plunge into change and try to fight, then eventually move with it with grace.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#60. Perhaps I did nothing because I don't have enough fear to be a good parent.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#61. I like to add props to render the specificities of place - paintings, food, clothing, signs, infrastructure, music, sayings and slang particular to the region and particular to the character. And props shouldn't just sit there; they should get used.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#62. My seven-year-old daughter knows old songs and how the neighborhoods got their names. There are little things: Businesses receive blessings from Hawaiian priests before opening, and everyone's kids have their debut luau. You can't really get through a day without doing something Hawaiian.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#63. We've visited a lot, but being a visitor is very different from living in Hawaii, especially when you're going to high school.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#65. I try to think of it not as writer's block, but a time where you just need to live life and experience things so you have something to write about.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#66. Do you guys have sunscreen?" I ask.
"No," Scottie says. "Do we have water?"
"Did you bring any?" Alex asks.
"No," I say.
Alex pops her head up. "Did you bring snacks for us?"
"We can walk to town."
How do mothers manage to bring everything a child could need?
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#67. Hawaii is so complex; there are so many points of view, and there are so many experiences to see and to find.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#68. I can still love feeling so close to the sun and peaks of mountains, still love life at this altitude - it makes me feel like every breath counts.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#69. We feel that we fit into this fandom even if we're an outcast or misfits in this world." -Mary, 16, Philippines
Jazmin Williams
#70. Nothing like a little disaster for sorting things out.
David Hemmings
#73. Disney's Aulani Resort has really developed the southwest coast of Oahu and led to it getting more attention.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#74. I tell Esther she should ease up on lard. There's no need to mix lard in with Scottie's rice, chicken, and beans. I tell her she hasn't read the blogs. I've read the blogs. I know what Scottie should eat.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#75. The beauty of cinema is that it can do some things that novels just can't.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#76. Producing is a thankless task akin to hotel management. Unfortunately, there are not too many good hotel managers.
David Hemmings
#77. What's great about teen fiction is that it's all mixed up - there's highbrow and lowbrow!
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#78. I'll never be ready. Yet at the same time, you always want to reach the end. You can't fly to a destination and linger in the air. I want to reach the end of this thing, and I feel terrible about it.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#79. I may some day get a boyfriend and eventually a husband, but you will always be my first loves." -Sheetal, 14, Qatar
Jazmin Williams
#80. I don't mind autograph hunters when I go down the fish and chip shop. As long as I get my chips.
David Hemmings
#81. I can't speak for all Hawaiians, but the reality is that we depend on tourism. Locals might not want to go to the spots like Waikiki, but we do want tourists to experience more of the islands.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#82. I just try to write what I think would really happen, and with grief and tragedy, there are these naturally occurring moments of levity and humor and absurdity. I think that's what life is really like. Sadness gets interrupted, and happiness gets interrupted.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#83. I was useless, that I leave my socks hanging on every doorknob in the house.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#84. Setting shouldn't just consist of describing nature or a landscape, or of saying where something takes place. It is the world of specific people. It's not enough for it to feel vivid or credible; it should feel necessary.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#85. I've never gone back to the stacks after my book's expiration at the front of the store. Not because I'm above it or anything, but I'd be mortified if someone caught me looking for my own book.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#86. I let her go on with this fantasy, this belief in magical endings, this belief that love can bring someone to life.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#87. We're just kids growing up on an island, doing bad things in pretty places.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#88. Where are their mothers? Kids are so free here. It makes them seem older, more capable, coordinated, but wild.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#89. If Joanie dies before me, I wonder if I'll ever be with another woman. I can't imagine going through all of the preliminary stuff - the talk, the chatter, the dinners. I'd have to take someone places, explain my history, make jokes, dole out compliments, hold back farts.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#90. Especially when I write, I want to get out of people's heads and have them speak and have them get dressed and have them go to work.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#91. Adults appreciate the flavor of wine, its nuances and such. And we have major problems and stress.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#92. I feel like having details from their day and having a plot and action and things to do is much more revealing than having a character sitting and thinking to themselves. When I'm writing, I want people to actually have a goal, something that's dragging them forward.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
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