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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'Grey's Anatomy' is a very culturally diverse show.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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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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The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
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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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Turkey has a young and growing population. Until recently, this was perceived as a problem, a burden that Turkey would bring to the E.U. But it is, in fact, an asset that can help the population deficit of the E.U. and the economic growth of Turkey.
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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
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In two-parent households, women have increasingly entered the workplace, and in single-parent households, there is even more of a need for the adults to work. That means parents do not fully control their own schedule and have to scramble to find high-quality after-school options.
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I get recognized all the time, but not as Haley Bennett.
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What I felt at that time - we're talking about '61 - was that I couldn't remember seeing a film that reflected the age we were living in.
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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.
