Ben Whishaw Quotes

I think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I've been cast.

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• Developing new products is labour- intensive. So is producing the capital goods needed to make them. These jobs disappear when innovation stalls.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Innovation
  • New
  • Disappear

• One of the questions writers bump up against in their work, whether they know it or not, is about lying. Because fiction is a form of deceit, and one's abilities are measured by how convincingly one can persuade readers that these events really happened.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Up
  • Work
  • Know

• The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Time
  • Sleep
  • Brain

• Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Always
  • Island
  • Hawaii

• I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Possession
  • Signed
  • Prized

• I pray for discretion every single night, that I can see through people, see what their greater good is. Sometimes that individual 'wows' you by the eye, but when it come to heart to heart, that person's not there for you. That's not just females. That may be friends, people who come into your life just to use you for who you are.

  

  Cam Newton
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Movies
  • Mother`s
  • Lot

• I've had all that you could ask for. The fat lady has sung, and there's a standing ovation.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • You
  • Lady
  • Fat

• At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Times
  • U.S.
  • Some

• I think the most challenging part of being a performer is just making sure that people know that when you get up there every night, it's unique and that you care.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • People
  • Up
  • Night

• Social media is an amazing tool, but it's really the face-to-face interaction that makes a long-term impact.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Long
  • Amazing
  • Media

• It's been a journey, the NBA. It's taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Journey
  • Expected
  • Farther

• I would never call myself a cancer survivor because I think it devalues those who do not survive. There's this whole mythology that people bravely battle their cancer and then they become survivors. Well, the ones who don't survive may be just as brave, you know, just as courageous, wonderful people.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • May
  • Myself

• There's just no quiet in Vegas.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Just
  • Quiet
  • Vegas

• I think I've been a very good student of all aspects of being in Congress. I think I'm always working hard to get an 'A.'

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Good
  • Student
  • Working Hard

• Well, then, arrest him. You can accuse him of something or other afterward.

  

  Isaac Asimov

• The general fellowship of our human situation has been rendered even more dubious than before, inasmuch as, though the old ties of caste have been loosened, a new restriction of the individual to some prescribed status in society is manifest. Less than ever, perhaps, is it possible for a man to transcend the limitations imposed by his social origins.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Society

• My work has threads of ideas from all over the place. I try to crystallise them in something simple and direct that the viewer can then take where they want.

  

  Cornelia Parker
  • Work
  • Simple

• The challenge has been, we make policy in the world of politics.

  

  Kevin McCarthy
  • World
  • Challenge

• I don't like Tommy on Broadway at all. I like the music, I'm pleased with Pete's success but I don't like what they've done to it.

  

  Roger Daltrey The Who
  • Music
  • Done
  • Success

• In the beginning, I would find a character I understood. That was my focus. Not now - but you basically get offered the exact same thing you just did. Which I find hilarious. I did 'The Vow,' and then I had every love story you can imagine thrown at me. And now I'm getting offers for comedies.

  

  Channing Tatum
  • Character
  • Focus
  • Beginning

• I tell ya, southern people, they always think you are hard-of-hearing. Every timr you leave they say to you, You come back, you hear? And southern people, they think you are horny too. You get directions, they say, Just up the road apiece.

  

  Jack Roy
  • People
  • Up
  • Road

• It seems to me one cannot sit down in that place [the Round Reading room of the British Museum] without a heart full of grateful reverence. I own to have said my grace at the table, and to have thanked Heaven for my English birthright, freely to partake of these beautiful books, and speak the truth I find there.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Heart
  • Book
  • Beautiful

• I think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I've been cast.

  

  Ben Whishaw