Warwick Thornton Quotes
The most dangerous thing is a bored teenager. They have the stigma of being Indigenous, Aboriginal, and all the trappings that come with it. The connection does come a lot more from those kids, desert or not. They're stepping out into the world.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.
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The economic sense of possibility was so great when I was growing up that my parents had no question that I could do anything I wanted to do, even as a girl. I've always believed that the economics of a story intersects with the women's story - that stuff often happens at the time it happens because of the economy.
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I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.
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This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.
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God has just given me such an amazing journey and able to play; it's been so much fun. I'm having a blast!
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I'd love to go into space again if there were a mission to Mars. I'd also love to go to a completely different planetary system, out of our solar system.
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I have held healthy respects of bears along with assorted crocodiles, snakes and lots of other animals. You know, bears are dangerous, you have to be super careful.
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With Taiwan, it took about 40 years to go from an authoritarian to a democratic society.
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I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
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Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.
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A national investment bank can invest to provide us with the foundations of shared and ecologically sustainable growth: renewing the U.K.'s energy, digital and transport infrastructure which lags woefully behind other major economies.
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O Mary, you give assistance to everyone endeavoring to rise to God!
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To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.
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If anything I stopped is because I understood everything except the distance.
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The most dangerous thing is a bored teenager. They have the stigma of being Indigenous, Aboriginal, and all the trappings that come with it. The connection does come a lot more from those kids, desert or not. They're stepping out into the world.
