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 did stand-up at U.C.B., and I had a blog for a couple of years that started my writing career, 'Totally Confident and Completely Insecure,' it was the same kind of self-deprecating humor and stories about being out in L.A. and being treated like a loser at a hair salon because you are not famous.
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The enigma I will not explain – its 'dark saying' must be left unguessed, and I warn you that the apparent connection between the variations and the theme is often of the slightest texture.
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The fact that this is getting released, and people are just now hearing it, kind of tickles me. This is just awesome that the media is excited to talk to me and find out what's happening.
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I think being on a TV show is amazing but also, people get kind of used to seeing you a certain way and so it becomes a challenge to break free from that in a way.
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I don't believe in that kind of pragmatic career ladder stuff.
