Warwick Thornton quotes
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“You live with someone until they accept that you are what you are, that you're not going to change and they love that about you - and then they decide to marry you, I guess.”
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“I was looking for an opportunity to make my first feature, so I asked myself: "What do you want to do? Is there something you can give to the world?"”
-- Warwick ThorntonSource : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
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“Urban artist have to face the stigma not only from white Australia but black Australia too; that's horrific when people say that their art isn't "Aboriginal" if it doesn't have dots or lines or moieties in it.”
-- Warwick ThorntonSource : Source: aboriginalartandculture.wordpress.com
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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.”
-- Warwick ThorntonSource : Source: aboriginalartandculture.wordpress.com
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“In most of my films I write the music into the script. I'm listening to songs and lyrics that empower the themes of the film. There's a lot of Indigenous music that has not been heard widely and I love the idea of giving that music to the rest of the world.”
-- Warwick ThorntonSource : Source: aboriginalartandculture.wordpress.com
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“When you're in other people's country you don't speak your own language out of respect. You don't need to speak.”
-- Warwick ThorntonSource : Source: aboriginalartandculture.wordpress.com
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“I love music more than language: it's the best, it's universal.”
-- Warwick ThorntonSource : Source: aboriginalartandculture.wordpress.com
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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.”
-- Warwick ThorntonSource : Source: aboriginalartandculture.wordpress.com
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Source : A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.11, Courier Corporation
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“Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?”
Source : Interview with Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2012.
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Source : Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.17, Lulu.com
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“It's part of the general global hypnotism to accept lies as the new truth.”
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Source : Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 6, 2010.
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“Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.”
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