David Wenham Quotes
Australia is a phenomenally beautiful country, and every time I go away and come back, it never ceases to amaze me.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.
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I think it's a shame when the arts have to suffer because of corporate greed. People will always strive to make film, and the only important thing is that we keep trying to make ourselves heard and keep making our films, no matter what the climate is.
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Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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Producing should be a creative responsibility.
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
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It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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Britain's passion for Christmas and huge white weddings dates from Victorian times - both were low-key celebrations before Victoria and her PR machine.
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I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light.
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Having your second child, in case you were wondering, is a lot harder than having your first, except for those people who find it easier. I'm afraid I don't have the latest figures to confirm this.
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My Jiu-Jitsu is very MMA focused. I was not the best striker, and when I considered becoming a MMA fighter I just focused to improve my BJJ.
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Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.
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I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.
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For a long time I limited myself to one colour - as a form of discipline.
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Hosting a TV show is a full-time job in which success is defined by it never ending.
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Australia is a phenomenally beautiful country, and every time I go away and come back, it never ceases to amaze me.
