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.
Quotes to Explore
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I am a Buddhist.
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We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.
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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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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.
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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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My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.
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I still do the same things, but it's nice. If people recognize you, generally everyone's very respectful, very lovely, but I wonder what it's like for real celebrities.
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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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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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I like the sudden shock of non-sequitur color. Color, in fact, is my weakness.
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I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person's shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.
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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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A creative writer must study carefully the works of his rivals, including the Almighty. He must possess the inborn capacity not only of recombining but of re-creating the given world. In order to do this adequately, avoiding duplication of labor, the artist should know the given world.
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I kind of dislike 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' but most of Hemingway in general, mainly because his stylistic shenanigans ruined so many young writers of my generation who tried to imitate him. I think, for his time, he moved fiction to a different level stylistically, or at least added to the dialogue, but in our time, he's annoying.
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I don't think I have the ability or patience to teach badminton to others.
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What are we, if not an accumulation of our memories?
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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.
