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.
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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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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.
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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've been fortunate enough to travel to Edinburgh a few times over the last few years, and I just loved the city. I find it one of the more beautiful cities in Europe.
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You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics. So I went to Ireland by myself for a couple of weeks with my guitar. I read lots of poetry, I read Patti Smith's autobiography and started words and phrases and then songs started to take shape.
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You've got a new Spanish-language album out now ["90 Millas," released in September of 2007], and the single ["No Llores"] is #1 on the Billboard Latin chart.
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don't understand.
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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.
