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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I've only used my own voice about four times on film.
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Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.
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Shoot, there's a committee to tell you everything at a record label. You definitely have to know who you are if you want to look like you at the end of the process. We've all seen people get record contracts, and by the time they're spit out by the machine, we don't even recognize them.
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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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The victory of the show is in the writing. Coming up with sketches and stand-up bits. The rest is just hitting buttons on a machine more or less.
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To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.
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The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic.
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Slavery is the ultimate form of being ripped from one's context, and thus from all the social relationships that make one a human being.
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Having a life outside of movies is like pure oxygen. It makes the work more precious and informed.
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I'd like to have a go at directing.
