David Wenham Quotes
My representation overseas can't stand me doing theatre because it takes me out of action. But it's what I want to do. If it means passing up other possibilities, them's the breaks.
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The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're not focused on doing a good job. You're focused on hitting your numbers. It's one reason why lawyers typically are so unhappy. And I want a world of happy lawyers.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.
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Man, y'know, I'm a music guy. I like a lot of different things. It depends on the time of the day and the situation.
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Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.
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Carrie-Anne Moss is awesome. I am just going to put that out there.
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Fighting bitterness can be a full-time job.
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'American Idol,' for me, is fizzling out. They can't package me, man... I'm an artist that's created this concept but used the 'American Idol' machine as a marketing tool.
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Quite frankly, I don't miss standing in the box or standing on the field playing.
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I know a lot is going to be on our shoulders, especially the way we're starting games out. We have to start faster; I have to be sharper from the start, and I will be. And I'm confident that if we can get this thing started out a little better each week that we can get on that roll and be tough to stop.
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I love the Army with every bone in my body.
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Dead people don't really die. They live on within you.
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Today, the biggest bottleneck to the growth of a corporation is availability of good talent.
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Sometimes when you're praised about something, sometimes it's deserved, and sometimes it's not deserved. Same thing with criticism. Sometimes the criticism is deserved, and sometimes it's not deserved.
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Incentive schemes, whereby people who have done the most good for humanity are rewarded 20 years into the future, would create the expectation that doing long-term good is valuable.
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I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random times.
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Reinvention is the key to surviving this fashion industry. Madonna is the perfect example of reinvention. She has taken something that is so little and turned herself into a legend by simply never staying the same.
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We think that because we dwell inside our bodies that we are separate from other people who dwell inside theirs.
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People are identifying not only with the trans movement, but also the Pfefferman family. What I am noticing is people are coming up on the street and talking about their life and their family, and they say, 'Your family is just like mine.'
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I was asked to speak at a bar association, because there's an upswing on college applications - in general and for Latinos - because of 'L.A. Law.' I went to a couple of functions, and I just felt an energy: It was, you're doing a good job, but do you realize how important it is?
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My representation overseas can't stand me doing theatre because it takes me out of action. But it's what I want to do. If it means passing up other possibilities, them's the breaks.
