Ben Whishaw Quotes
I do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't think that my work is very moralistic - at least, I try to avoid that. I grew up with that sermonising tendency, and I don't think visual work operates like that.
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I never believed I was the best fighter in the world.
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Life is not over because you have diabetes. Make the most of what you have, be grateful.
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This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.
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Here's the thing that people don't understand: I don't really care. I've never been a careerist. It's not a strategy. I react to certain characters and story lines and specific mode of filmmaking.
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My favorite weekend activity is riding bikes to breakfast.
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'EastEnders' has been wonderful to me and it's no secret that it changed my life all of those years ago. I'll be so sad to leave Peggy behind; she's such a wonderful character to play. I have had the pleasure of working with a marvelous cast and crew and have made many lasting good friends.
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I literally in the New York flea market - just when I was despairing of ever having a great serendipitous find - found a 1926 Chanel.
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I've become very, very liberal as far as war is concerned. It's just too terrible. I've been to wars and I've seen what happens. I know what it is to be hurt, and it's nothing compared to these guys. To be blind for the rest of your life. To have prosthetic limbs.
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Negroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home.
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Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
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I pretty much look like an identical twin of my mom.
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If you don't look good, we don't look good.
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I'm as honest as I can be.
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If John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan could negotiate with the Soviet Union, then surely a strong and confident America can negotiate with less powerful adversaries today.
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Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.
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It is no coincidence that while some major female artists have married, very few have borne children. The issue is not conservation of energy but imaginative integrity. Art is its own self-swelling, proof that the mind is greater than the body.
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Foo, a beautiful gal wastes her time gracin' up this swamp.
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I got married about three years ago again to a wonderful German woman. Her name is Monika and she is beautiful. She is one of the biggest women Zappa fans I have ever met in my life.
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I'm Sinatra, I'm Frank Sinatra in disguise.
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Children tell the truth.
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My name is on the door, and I care very much about the design that gets put out. I'm sorry, but it has to be my way. You learn that by working for people like I. M. Pei. You think he isn't a design tyrant? Is Calvin Klein a tyrant? When it came to his dresses, he had to be.
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I have no delusions that I'm the only source of improving people's lives or that I'm even the right source. My style is intense, and it's not going to be right for everybody.
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I do get stopped on the street, although rarely. And they always have something lovely to say.
