David Wenham Quotes
Listening and hearing are two different things, and acting is comprehending what the person is saying, thinking how it makes you feel and responding. That's the key to really honest, truthful, compelling performance.
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I've always been interested in family secrets and what happens behind closed doors. I find that fascinating and creepy - that's why I read: because I want to know other people's secrets.
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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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When I taught, the way in which we got evaluated is what I used to call the drive-by evaluation. Somebody would come in for 20 minutes with a checklist, and that would be your evaluation. So it was clearly a snapshot.
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We must get to the point in our lives. What is the point? To become a new kind of man or woman, having inner command and outer excellence.
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I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.
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I am a movie fan across the board, though, so if a movie is well done then I love it and it does not really matter what the genre is.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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The bad boy: always more fun.
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Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.
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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
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Sometimes the storyline is as simple as, 'We're just going to be the best, and we're going for the championships.
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In high school I had B's and C's, not too many A's, but I must have done well on that medical school test, and I must have had some charisma in the interview, so I ended up in medicine. Being a general practitioner was all I aspired to.
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Events are not a matter of chance.
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I'm a normal guy.
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Police blog or entertainment news, it's just good to see your name in print.
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I go to correctional facilities and talk to kids there. They have little kids in there who are, like, 12 years old, stealing cars and stuff like that.
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The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.
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He's actually a rather good ruler. Better, I suspect, than most of our Christian monarchs. He's certainly been good for Mysore. He's fetched it a deal of wealth, given it more justice than most countries enjoy in India and he's been tolerant to most religions, though I fear he did persecute some unfortunate Christians.
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It's always been performance art, but now it's on a different level.
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Countries, not just their armies, win wars.
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As well as hints from Asian authorities that they are going to diversify, we now have the U.S. acknowledging it. It's going to put the dollar under a bit of pressure.
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Listening and hearing are two different things, and acting is comprehending what the person is saying, thinking how it makes you feel and responding. That's the key to really honest, truthful, compelling performance.
