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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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've never worried about how long the song is.
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The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings by the exercise of personal strengths and virtues, leads to legions of people who, in the middle of great wealth, are starving spiritually.
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These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas.
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I never feel like I need to make a song that sells 5 million copies; that's not the point of why I make music. It's great if that happens, like it did with 'Clarity,' but my goal is to always make a better track than the last one.
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I was inspired by my son on the song 'The Most Beautiful People Are Broken.' Life is an extra challenge for him. But he does it all with such great grace and courage.
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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.
