Ben Barnes Quotes
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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For 120 minutes, 'Birdman' floats from comedy to surrealism to high drama to quiet brilliance. I felt so inspired by watching this movie. It reaches for the sky and never comes back down to earth.
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I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
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The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Yes, it's annoying that Hamlet doesn't kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, but if he did kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, there wouldn't be a play. He has to be annoying, if you will, and not do what would be the thing to do.
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I remember people saying: 'You look funny, your hair is so black, you have a flat nose,' but I didn't think of it being racism, and I still don't. But there was a sense of difference, of being an outsider.
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You just can't control your art in the future.
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In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.
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We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
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The actors that I admire are able to step into so many different roles.
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It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.
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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.
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When you realize that the uncut 'Porgy and Bess' started me off, that I'd have the opportunity to do a ton of 'Stoppard,' 'Hairspray,' that I'm able to do 'Il Trittico' at the Met – how do I top that?
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I had a couple CDs. But I never had that first concert experience, that first record thing.
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I was thinking on the rollers today that, before a race, if I could just pick my brain up and put it on the side of the track for four minutes, it would be perfect.
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I am honoured to have been chosen for an Amitabh Bachchan film.
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When I was a kid, my aunt coached me a little bit for choir, and what she taught me actually stuck with me. She basically taught me to sing from my diaphragm and not from my throat.
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Red is uplifting.
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I do not believe in planning.
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My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?
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Playing the greatest warrior in the seven kingdoms, that's absolutely no pressure.
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I don't believe in that kind of pragmatic career ladder stuff.
