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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I've had such an odd career.
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When I'm online, I'm alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard, staring at a cathode-ray tube.
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I like creating these moments where there's this dichotomy between something that repels you but is still so attractive that you can't stop looking. You still want to acquire it; there's still that level of aspiration for the image of the figure or the person you're looking at. when you look at the work there's this, "Oh it's really beautifully rendered!" or, "I love those beautiful tones." There's some aspect that's really attractive but the image itself could be slightly distributing.
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The universe must not be narrowed down to the limit of our understanding, but our understanding must be stretched and enlarged to take in the image of the universe as it is discovered.
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The Doors were never that good as musicians.
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The thing I love most about acting is that your capacity evolves as you evolve as a human being.
