Ben Whishaw Quotes
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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.
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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.
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The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
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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.
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I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession.
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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.
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I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.
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I've had all that you could ask for. The fat lady has sung, and there's a standing ovation.
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At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.
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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.
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Social media is an amazing tool, but it's really the face-to-face interaction that makes a long-term impact.
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It's been a journey, the NBA. It's taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.
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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.
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There's just no quiet in Vegas.
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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.'
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Well, then, arrest him. You can accuse him of something or other afterward.
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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.
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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.
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I believe God takes the things in our lives - family, background, education - and uses them as part of his calling. It might not be to become a pastor. But I don't think God wastes anything.
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I think for a lot of amateurs, their alignment is always out.
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I think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I've been cast.
