David Wenham Quotes
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EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined 'EVOO' on my cooking show because saying 'extra virgin olive oil' over and over was wordy, and I'm an impatient girl - that's why I make 30-minute meals!
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I turned down a lot of films.
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I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it.
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I dug up some old John Buscema 'Conan' comics. Man, when Alfredo Alcala was inking, that was some of the most beautiful black and white comic art ever published. The stories are good, too, though early '70s comics based on Conan is a festival of sexist, racist stereotypes.
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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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I want to see Brian Williams with no irony wearing a mustache.
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In many countries in the Middle East - and this is changing in the wake of the Arab Spring - but for a long time, censorship of books and film was a very big deal. There were books you couldn't buy; things with political content would be censored, but there were some genres of books and film that the censors just didn't understand.
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We are seeing entrepreneurs issuing their own blockchain-based tokens to raise money for their networks, sidestepping the traditional, exclusive world of venture capital altogether. The importance of this cannot be overstated - in this new world, there are no companies, just protocols.
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I was 13 - 14 when I first tasted stardom. In the summer holidays, my dad made me act in these films that went on to become superhits. I became a child star.
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I can give you a definite perhaps.
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If we perform as a unit and if every single player gives it his very best, everything can happen.
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You have people who can't act and they get all these parts. Paris Hilton falls into her own category. She's made a career out of it.
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I don't really have a career plan. There's no joy for me to just be a personality in my work, and I feel that that's so much of what's out there.
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My absolute dream would be to play for Manchester United and help them reach the goals they have.
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People have always liked to be frightened. People love to feel that jolt of adrenaline. People love roller coasters. People love skydiving. These things that really get your heart pumping, and horror films are sort of a safe way to get that rush I guess.
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I respect Apple. It's a great company that changed the world, especially the mobile time.
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What's great about having an audience is they can let you know what they don't think is funny, and you can just cut that out and keep trying.
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People like me who have passion are derided: 'Ha ha ha! She's hysterical!' 'She's very passionate!' Listen how the Americans speak about me: 'A very passionate Italian.'
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A good comic explores the imagination, but it's always got to have those notes of truth running through it.
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Being Elvis Presley's daughter is a whole lot of pressure. It's been a constant burden in my life.
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I don't know why everybody thinks I'm smooth. I think I'm just a pretty silly person, really.
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The amount of people who talk about guns, versus who actually uses them, is not even close in this millennium.
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I think actors do make really, really wonderful directors.
