Ben Whishaw Quotes
The thing I love most about acting is that your capacity evolves as you evolve as a human being.
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I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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I've got a couple of Harleys and a couple of Ducatis.
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I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
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Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.
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Sound-wise, I'm really limitless in the way I write songs. Whatever comes out, comes out. Every song is completely different.
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It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next.
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Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.
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The Indian youth needs to be empowered, and it can be done through good education and vocational training.
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We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
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To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
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I've grown up on TV, and there were some phases that weren't pretty.
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I have fun when I'm making music, and I want people to have fun when they listen to it.
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Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting.
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I was quietly rebellious. My parents thought I was very good but secretly I did things like saying I was staying in one place and going somewhere else instead. My older sister was openly rebellious and would tell my parents where to go, but I never did that.
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Appointment viewing is dead, and I think it is going away.
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The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in the significances.
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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.
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It is good knowing that glasses are to drink from; the bad thing is not to know what thirst is for.
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When I was a boy, I used to wake up thinking that the world was ending. I'd get up and look in the mirror and my eyes were sad.
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The modern stuff, I can take it or leave it. I like its danceability, but the DJs talk a lot of nonsense.
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We see in the electroencephalogram a concomitant phenomenon of the continuous nerve processes which take place in the brain, exactly as the electrocardiogram represents a concomitant phenomenon of the contractions of the individual segments of the heart.
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The thing I love most about acting is that your capacity evolves as you evolve as a human being.
