Ben Whishaw Quotes
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I've always been interested in violence, even as a teenager. I loved 'Helter Skelter' and books like that.
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Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made an impact, who people could even have recognized or identified. And it's really only been since Jackie Kennedy that there's been this idea that the family life of the president is such a central thing.
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You walk into the class in second grade. You can't read. What are you going to do if you're going to make it? You identify the smart kid. You make friends with him. You sit next to him. You grow a team around you. You delegate your work to others. You learn how to talk your way out of a tight spot.
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Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we collect and share research data on an exponentially wider scale.
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He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.
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The thing that always attracted me to New York was the sense of being in a place where a lot of people had a lot of stories not unlike mine. Everybody comes from somewhere else. Everyone's got a Polish grandmother, some kind of metamorphosis in their family circumstances. That's a very big thing - the experience of not living where you started.
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There was such a relationship between the buffalo and the American Indian - the Indians would eat them, live inside their pelts, use every part of the body. There was almost no separation between the people and the animals.
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My father has been the real anchor of the family. He's the one who has always encouraged my mother, my brother and me.
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The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.
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Poitier opened the doors to so many artists, not just black artists. There is a line that goes from black to Latin to Asian with regards to roles.
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I am continually embarrassed by people who point me out as an example of what can be done without training.
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No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
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I'm still a student of fashion, but I like hooking up with the people that really know how to make cool clothes.
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Men are more particular, and they're not going to grab something with a bodice-ripper cover on it.
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In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
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Our morality is based on so many factors: of where we were born, who we were born to, what values were instilled in us, what values we chose, the way that our lives have shaped us. That dictates so much of what we assume is our morality, and also the culture, all of these things.
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India is still considered a preferred destination for many multinationals to manufacture cost-competitive high-technology products for domestic consumption as well as for global demand.
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My grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to her home town ... a German soldier shot her dead in her bed. My grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinian grandmothers in Gaza. The present Israeli government ruthlessly and cynically exploit the continuing guilt from gentiles over the slaughter of Jews in the Holocaust as justification for their murder of Palestinians.
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The only other thing I can really remember wanting to do besides acting was a gas station attendant. At the time, that seemed like a great job - wash the windows, pump the gas - it looks so cool coming home with black hands. There's a natural transition, from wanting to be a gas station attendant to being an actor, right?
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He was a tall man with an astonishing and somehow elegant curvature of the spine, formed by an enlarged lower abdomen, which he carried in a stately and contented way, as if it contained money and securities.
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All of my decisions I made when I was a kid were decisions, would my mother and father be proud of.
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The day people around me stop questioning my character is the day my character begins to grow vulnerable.
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I'm a fairly private person.
