Ben Whishaw Quotes
The thing I love about acting is that you can bring something very personal into the open and at the same time remain hidden because you're always playing a character in a story that someone else has imagined. You're always protected.
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I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
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The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.
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What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
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I like the sudden shock of non-sequitur color. Color, in fact, is my weakness.
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The whole decathlon is ridiculous, but the 1,500 meters is insanity.
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Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.
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I'm a working actor. I don't make my own work, so it's the opportunities that are presented to me.
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Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed.
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Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.
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The amygdala is indeed crucial for monitoring our environment and deciding what's worth getting worked up over. Once the amygdala determines this, however, it merely trips another circuit to actually produce the panic.
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I was going to college to be a doctor.
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Hey kid, do you want to come and talk to Charlie?
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.
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I have a big problem with people who glamorize dumbness and demonize education and intellect. And I'm giving a pretty good description of Sarah Palin right now.
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When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor key.
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I admire writers such as Elmore Leonard who can nail a character in three or four lines of dialogue, so he doesn't need pages of back story or clumsy exposition.
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A man's character is his fate.
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I do not believe that we can stop perfecting new ways of dying until we have found new ways of living. Every new life-way ought to prevent a new death-way.
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Unlike President Obama, President Nixon was a capitalist who did not believe in 'remaking' the very character of America.
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The thing I love about acting is that you can bring something very personal into the open and at the same time remain hidden because you're always playing a character in a story that someone else has imagined. You're always protected.
