Chad Urmston Quotes
I think there's a lot more appreciation and maturity and acceptance of everyone's flaws.
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I'm very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in 'Morning Glory' with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.
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A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
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Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.
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A lot of people may know my face and know that I'm a good player on the football field, but they probably don't really know me as a person.
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I've never worried about payback. People are hungry for leadership that's not afraid of political consequence.
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I'm kind of long in the tooth to fly in in a cape now, so I'd have to be, like, the voice of reason or somebody. 'Don't do that, super-fellow!'
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I don't think you can judge something without seeing it.
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Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way people usually see them. It can make for lively conversations, but that's great. Spark a little controversy, get people to think about it. That's what it's all about.
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There are lots of reasons email persists, even as faster and simpler forms of communication proliferate and your personal communications likely have mostly migrated elsewhere. But one big one is that new types of media channels rarely totally kill off old ones, even though everyone predicts they will.
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All my life, I have been surrounded by the track. The week I was born, Dad took me to training. I do recall at some stage being pushed around in a pram on a track. I have a lot of inspiration from him. To see him carrying the Sydney Olympic torch really ignited my dream. As a coach, he knows the in and outs of race walking and technique.
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Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?
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Our nation is today a powerful nation.
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Music was the only voice of cinema for a very long time before we had sound; it's organically linked to cinema itself.
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There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.
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Fashion shows used to be more crazy. Now they've become a bit too serious.
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I don't know what 'famous' is, really.
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My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.
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I don't really set out to please anybody, and I don't think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try to write something specifically for the purpose of releasing it as a single to get radio play. Those are not my best songs, as a rule.
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I love bad movies, whereas going to the theater for me is a painful experience. I think it's really hard to sit and watch actors do something live and have it not go well.
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I think when the bottom started to drop out, we didn't recognize it.
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Give a good deed the credit of a good motive; and give an evil deed the benefit of the doubt.
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I think there's a lot more appreciation and maturity and acceptance of everyone's flaws.
