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.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.
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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.
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Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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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.
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I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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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.
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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.
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We've got a great value proposition against Chromebooks, we are not ceding the market to anyone.
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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.
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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?
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As a writer given to the old formalities of rhyme and meter, I sometimes feel endangered these days.
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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.
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One of the most important things, actually, when you're playing on grass, is to move.
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I can make up stories with the best of them. I've been telling stories since I was a little kid.
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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.
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I'm an escapist kind of writer.
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A lot of fighters come from Brazil. We've been doing this for long, long years.
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I feel like, when you turn on the radio and you hear a great song, you know it's a great song, and you sing along. We all know what a great song sounds like, so we all have that instinct, it's just being able to accept your own instincts when you write that song.
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When I'm in the mode of feeling positive about love, I don't really feel the need to mark it down in song. In fact, I know what that song would sound like, and I would not subject anybody to that.
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You don't actually have to understand the song to be emotionally moved and uplifted, whereas with language it becomes quirky and analytical.
