Ben Barnes Quotes
I was heavily into sport from 10 to 15, I was in all the teams, and it was everything to me. But I was very young for my school year and when puberty kicked in for my classmates I got left behind.
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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I never wrote just straight women's roles. I liked the strong characters. I don't mean women who have masculine qualities about them, but something that has some intestinal fortitude, some guts to it.
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I was authorized to do everything that I did.
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Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.
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Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.
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Because pandemics almost always begin with the transmission of an animal microbe to a human, it's work that takes me all around the globe - from rain forest hunting camps of central Africa to wild animal markets of east Asia.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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I know what a long shot race is like, and I'm willing to put the work in.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
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Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action.
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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.
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I have over 35 tattoos.
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'Time' is an internationalist publication catering to internationalist readers who are not only interested in their own backyard.
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When I first played New York, it was with James Brown at the Apollo, and I was playing in a band under the name The Valentinos. I remember Sam Cooke saying, 'I want you to go in there with James Brown. I couldn't be as hard on you as James Brown would be.' But we came out marching like soldiers.
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I still love finding the soul of the characters I play and defining who they are. This to me is my paint set, and the colors are always exciting to choose.
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In the simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where she wants and gets up and goes.
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I was heavily into sport from 10 to 15, I was in all the teams, and it was everything to me. But I was very young for my school year and when puberty kicked in for my classmates I got left behind.
