Brenton Thwaites Quotes
My first job on the screen was 'Sea Patrol,' and that was quite intense, but I guess my first big break was 'SLiDE.'
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America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
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Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
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One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read 'Matilda.' I wrote my own version and my teacher had it bound and permitted me to read it to the class - cementing my love of reading, writing and Roald Dahl!
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?
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No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.
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I get bored easily.
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I don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act.
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I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
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The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.
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I am a product of Indian cinema; I've grown up watching Indian films ever since I can remember. And song and dance is part of our lives; it's part of our culture; we wake up to songs, we sleep to lullabies, you know, we celebrate every religious and traditional function with music.
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I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.
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By the time I got to set for 'Cobra,' I think I'd lost about 28 pounds in about a month and a half. I didn't want to look back and be like, 'Wow, someone should stop eating PB and J's.' Like, if I'm going to look back when I'm 80, I wanted to be like, 'Wow, okay, I looked pretty fit. I used my youth right.'
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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
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I started out with comedy in college, but had my major in Recreation Administration - which meant I wasn't going to get a real job - so I started doing a little standup.
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I got a job in advertising. So even though I was writing, I was always supporting myself. That's the thing that would matter for my father, who was absolutely a creature of the Great Depression.
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I could never dream of being cool.
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It is difficult to feel accomplished when you're not accomplishing something that matters to you. Doing something 'for your own good' is rarely for your own good if it causes you to be less than who you really are.
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My first job on the screen was 'Sea Patrol,' and that was quite intense, but I guess my first big break was 'SLiDE.'
