Warwick Thornton Quotes

You don't actually have to understand the song to be emotionally moved and uplifted, whereas with language it becomes quirky and analytical.

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• How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Up
  • Quality
  • Stand

• I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Think
  • Intelligent
  • I Think

• Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • America
  • History
  • Thought

• Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Decision
  • Military
  • Force

• You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.

  

  Barry Mann
  • You
  • Accept
  • Rejection

• I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Better

• In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • Time
  • Woman
  • Chance

• I loved Judy Garland. I thought she was such a classic beauty. I thought she was so endearing and charming, and I loved her voice. She was such a dreamer, and I think I was, too - and I am.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Beauty
  • Voice
  • Charming

• All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.

  

  A. Lawrence Lowell
  • May
  • Truth
  • True

• I knew on the day that I accepted my job at CNN that a ratings victory at 8 P.M. was going to be a formidable challenge. As I have been told over and over, this is the toughest time slot in cable news.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Time
  • Job
  • Day

• We've got a great value proposition against Chromebooks, we are not ceding the market to anyone.

  

  B. Kevin Turner
  • Great
  • Value
  • Proposition

• It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Past
  • Present
  • Forever

• I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don't contribute to your campaign? Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Hate
  • Question

• As a writer given to the old formalities of rhyme and meter, I sometimes feel endangered these days.

  

  X. J. Kennedy
  • Sometimes
  • Feel
  • Old

• On Saturday afternoons, there was a film, of course, and then we did about four shows between the films. And I would do a tap dance, a little military tap.

  

  Barbara Cook
  • Film
  • Dance
  • Military

• One of the most important things, actually, when you're playing on grass, is to move.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Important
  • You
  • Grass

• I can make up stories with the best of them. I've been telling stories since I was a little kid.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Up
  • Best
  • Kid

• I didn't want to get pregnant while commanding an assault helicopter company and, before I knew it, I was deployed and missed out on many of my childbearing years.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Want
  • Years
  • Company

• My mother had me when she was 16, and that was an issue that had to be dealt with. She grew up in a very religious background, and there was a lot of discussion of what they should do with this unborn child. But here I am, and thank goodness.

  

  Carmen Cusack
  • Up
  • She
  • Mother

• As a human being, I'm work in process.

  

  John Joseph Lydon
  • Work

• But when you think: Tim McGraw,I hope you think my favorite song.The one we danced to all night long:The moon like a spotlight on the lake.When you think happiness,I hope you think: 'That little black dress.'Think of my head on your chest,An' my old faded blue jeans.When you think Tim McGraw,I hope you think of me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Long
  • Hope
  • Song

• If grammar is medicine, then Roy Clark gives us the spoonful of sugar to help it go down. A wonderful tour through the labyrinth of language.

  

  Anne Hull
  • Help
  • Giving
  • Language

• You don't actually have to understand the song to be emotionally moved and uplifted, whereas with language it becomes quirky and analytical.

  

  Warwick Thornton
  • Song
  • Language
  • Moved