Brenton Thwaites Quotes
Growing up, I was always adamant that I would never do 'Home and Away' or 'Neighbours,' because as an actor you want to set your path as that serious kind of actor.
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn't win but their careers are doing well.
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I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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You can't just let nature run wild.
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All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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I am absolutely not saying that Milosevic might not be responsible for all sorts of atrocities, but I believe that what's been left out of public debate and the press is that there was a civil war going on there.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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When I cook a meal, I like to serve things one by one and keep them separate. I get that from my father - he's such a purist. Some people even put their desserts on the main plate. It's just wrong.
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It simply isn't acceptable for the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon and others, which amass data by the terabyte, to say, 'Don't worry, your information's safe with us, as all sorts of rules protect you' - when all evidence suggests otherwise.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
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I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.
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I watch virtually no TV. All my screen time is computer time for me. When I'm not doing that I'm reading or talking to my friends who I got to know through computers.
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One superlatively important effect of wide reading is the enlargement of vocabulary which always accompanies it.
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It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world.
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One time I got dressed in all black, Rambo-style, and took a massive pair of bolt-cutters and nicked a military bike.
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My parents are pretty good about keeping me humble. They brought me up good.
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Growing up, I was always adamant that I would never do 'Home and Away' or 'Neighbours,' because as an actor you want to set your path as that serious kind of actor.
