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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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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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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I am definitely romantic, and I love romantic stories - that's why I keep making romantic movies.
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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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I grew up with an abundance of things from our garden, so fried food was not enjoyable.
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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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My affection for Taiwan... is witnessed by everyone. My wife is Taiwanese and I am a son-in-law of Taiwan. I am half Taiwanese.
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In a way, being born is a sort of ecological contagion. When you have longevity of family, we remember our grandfathers and maybe our great-grandfathers. We somehow don't have the capacity in modern life to remember further than that. All of the ramifications of their lives have an effect on us, and we're not aware of it.
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Everyone's struggle is different. Just because I wasn't struggling on the streets, it doesn't mean I don't know what it's like to struggle.
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If you're an attractive guy, everyone thinks you're successful just because of the way you look. I hate that.
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Stevie Nicks has always been my fashion icon, so I wanted to blend her infamous witchy style with the 90s valley girl theme that I was so entranced by as a young girl.
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I think there's a lot more appreciation and maturity and acceptance of everyone's flaws.
