Ben Whishaw Quotes
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For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
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I'm a good driver.
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There are no maladies in my golf game. My golf game stinks.
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I'm not out there to be blocking shots or fighting guys. I'm out there to produce offensively.
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Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.
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Nothing is better than peace, by which all warfare of heavenly and earthly foes is brought to naught.
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When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way.
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The secrecy thing has gotten to be more and more prevalent in films, and maybe that's good. It's nice to go see a film and not know anything about it. Sometimes I feel like we know too much about films.
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Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.
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The Small Business Lending Fund was cleverly named by its authors last Congress. Since its implementation, however, it would appear a more appropriate name would be the Bailed Out Bank Refinancing Fund.
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There are amendments never offered, there are bills never heard, that are basically killed because of the process.
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We do a lot of consumer research. Consumers believe the smartphone will be the remote, meaning that it will orchestrate a lot of things. So maybe you will take your connectivity with you to the car.
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I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was a little mellower.
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People were saying, 'He's worth £32m? He tried a back-heel and fell over!' Even I laughed. In my head, I said, 'OK, you've seen the bad side, now come see the good side'.
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To the socialist no nation is free whose national existence is based upon the enslavement of another people, for to him colonial peoples, too, are peoples, and, as such, parts of the national state.
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One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.
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For me, inventing video games was just one successful thing I had done among many others.
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On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of decision, sat down to wait, and waiting died.
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You can't control everything that comes to you.
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When I switched to screenplays - 'cause I had done musicals and plays - the first assignment in film school was, you have to write a silent film. And it's tremendously helpful to learn how to do that because dialogue can be a crutch. If you can master a silent film, you're golden.
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The injustices endured by black Americans at the hands of their own government have no parallel in our history, not only during the period of slavery but also in the Jim Crow era that followed.
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If your album sells, that's cool, more people find out about you, more people get turned on to what we're really about-which is a live rock and roll band.
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I'd like to have a go at directing.
