David Wenham Quotes

I always loved putting on shows - when you're the youngest of seven and five are older sisters, you've got to get noticed somehow! I did puppet shows and magic shows... even ventriloquism. My doll's name was 'Dan,' and I used to write these scripts, and my schoolmate hid under the table and supplied Dan's voice.

David Wenham

• Magic

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• But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything.

  

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• It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.

  

  Saint Augustine
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• I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.

  

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• My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.

  

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• Mr. Trump, you were elected mainly because you found a way to connect with the average blue-collar worker who's sick of the games politicians have been playing for years. Those same blue-collar folks, who go to church, want to feed their families, have to pay their taxes.

  

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  • Want
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• I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.

  

  Carice van Houten
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• If the plane moves, some turbulence, I am nervous flyer.

  

  Rafael Nadal
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• The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • You
  • Always
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• I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • People
  • Voice
  • Random

• I've always been a happy-go-lucky person. I haven't got any dark tales, I didn't draw on my own past, I'm from a very normal stable background and had an amazing childhood, and I haven't got any complaints really.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • Happy
  • Past
  • Amazing

• I think most people have creative ideas and have very strange, unorthodox impulses of things that they can do with their lives. I've had many of these over the years, but I decided the more important question was, 'When did I start calling this art?'

  

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• I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.

  

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• I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.

  

  Gabriel Basso
  • World
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• The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that's powerful.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• The Bureau doesn't have any secret files.

  

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• You'd have to be an idiot to say no to 'Hunger Games.'

  

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• You can get beat any day.

  

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• I never felt isolated; I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really liked it.

  

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• Wisdom consists in knowing what not to want as well as what to want.

  

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• The people, the culture... there's so much magic in Colombia, so I feel like being a kid, being able to have that, being able to also call Colombia my home, it was such an important part of my introduction as an artist, too, because it's such a big part of my life as a human being.

  

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  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• I'm really trying hard not to do anything that has been done before. So knowing everything I can about the legacy of magic challenges my team and I to invent new illusions.

  

  David Copperfield
  • Trying
  • Done
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• The only one who didn't know was George Lucas. We kept it from him, because we wanted to see what his face looked like when it changed expression--and he fooled us even then. He got Industrial Light and Magic to change his facial expressions for him and THX sound to make the noise of a face-changing expression.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Magic
  • Changed

• I always loved putting on shows - when you're the youngest of seven and five are older sisters, you've got to get noticed somehow! I did puppet shows and magic shows... even ventriloquism. My doll's name was 'Dan,' and I used to write these scripts, and my schoolmate hid under the table and supplied Dan's voice.

  

  David Wenham
  • Magic