Ben Whishaw Quotes
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For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.
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It's always really challenging trying to go from player to player/coach. You have a kind of friendship basis of relationship with all of your teammates, and now you go to this power position where you have to make decisions that might hurt people's feelings.
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I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.
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I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.
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In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it.
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I didn't get into rap to be no lyrical genius. I got into rap to feed my family and help the people in need around me, that's it. A lot of people say, 'Man, Waka Flocka ain't go no lyrics,' so I was like, 'Yeah, you right!'
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
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In Valdosta, Ga., during a mini-tour event, a player named James Black bet me $20 he could put five golf balls in his mouth and then close his mouth all the way. I tried it but could get only two in there.
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By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe.
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In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.
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I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.
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Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.
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Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
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Everyone should change; otherwise, you can't grow as a person in life.
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The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
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I do a lot of public speaking and presentations and I'll always start with a self-deprecating joke to make everybody feel comfortable with my size because there can be hang-ups and anxieties.
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I like wearing scarves in my hair because they make me look put together without taking a lot of time.
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You live like comfortable strangers. Like characters in a play.
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Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse.
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Brave men don't belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it.
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Before Juilliard, I was a schoolteacher for a little bit. I taught in a charter school. I was a substitute teacher for kids ages 3 to 6.
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I love the characters I've had the opportunity to play.
