Ben Barnes Quotes
I don't really see the point in making a film unless you can think of a good reason to do it.
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It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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I think at first the Flume project really started out as an online thing. I used Facebook and SoundCloud, and I think we got lucky because it felt like a bit of a golden age of those social media platforms. So I managed to create quite a solid fan base online.
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The climate has been changing since there was a climate.
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In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
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I see couples fighting about the stupidest things. You just have to rise above everything.
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I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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At the end of OK Computer we were playing big, big arenas and it wasn't right. You can do those things occasionally but at the time it didn't feel right.
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We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use.
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Not all offers I get are exciting and inspiring. I would rather sit at home and not work than jump into mediocrity for the sake of just moving ahead. If it's a good script, I would sacrifice my personal time and grab it.
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The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
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I'm still very much a kid inside myself.
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Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
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I just want real reactions. I want people to laugh from the gut, be sad from the gut - or get angry from the gut.
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You never want to be completely alone at what you do. Competition is good for everyone.
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I don't really see the point in making a film unless you can think of a good reason to do it.
