David Wenham Quotes
Acting, to me, is being given the freedom and ability to play, and that's - that's what I love most about it. I feel very comfortable in playing, whether it be in front of a camera or on stage.
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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
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I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer's life changed mine.
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I studied Morse code.
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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The idea would be in my mind - and I know it sounds strange - is that the most important advances in medicine would be made not by new knowledge in molecular biology, because that's exceeding what we can even use. It'll be made by mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, figuring out a way to get all that information together.
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You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.
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I wore U.S.A. across my chest in 1976.
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Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.
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I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.
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With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of, sort of figured out how to write a book a little bit better. But the process remains not that different - slow; laborious; tiny, incremental progress each day, punctuated by feelings of despair and self-loathing.
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I choose my words very delicately because I have a divided society.
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I busted my butt all my life building companies.
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The verdict of the world is conclusive.
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Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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I'm not even kind of a lesbian.
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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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As priests uphold their people in prayer, so their people are to uphold them with prayer and love, for he cannot work without his people.
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The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself.
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It is very seldom that the same man knows much of science, and about the things that were known before science came.
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For you, and and all the other readers who have followed the story to its conclusion...
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Hire great people and give them freedom to be awesome.
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Acting, to me, is being given the freedom and ability to play, and that's - that's what I love most about it. I feel very comfortable in playing, whether it be in front of a camera or on stage.
