Ben Whishaw Quotes
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.
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I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.
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Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.
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I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
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I find it hard to be labelled in this new 'super-rich' category because we all grew up with very little. The idea that 'to get rich is glorious' is really a new phenomenon. I certainly didn't grow up like that.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.
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People in this country haven't stopped hating fat people, but they've become more kind to me, since in our culture, even though we hate our fat people, we love our celebrities even more.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
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I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.
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Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.
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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
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I know when you're in the business of cover sports, you look for 60-minute games and a result. It's never that simple.
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The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.
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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
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I don't use a computer in writing at all. I'm sort of old-fashioned about it.
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I don't really have goals as far as, I want to be on a cover or something like that.
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When the electricity goes out and everything else goes out -- you don't have the pumps to pump it out either. Because it doesn't work either.
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I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
