Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
When you freefall for 7,000 feet it doesn't feel like you're falling: it feels like you're floating, a bit like scuba diving.
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My favourite authors are Milan Kundera and Jeanette Winterson.
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When we watch stories, we learn empathy, we learn compassion, and hopefully we achieve some sort of understanding.
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On the streets, hanging out with the fellows, there are things you learn that no book can teach you.
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Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.
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I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She grabbed my comic book and tore it up. I was really upset, but then she brought in a pile of books from her own library. That was the best thing that ever happened to me.
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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I'm probably the most militant person you'll ever meet and I speak my mind without provocation sometimes.
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How can we later criticise other countries outside the European Union for adopting such measures to repress opponents when we are tolerating this inside the European Union with European citizens? Like me - I'm a European citizen.
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In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.
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Every once in a while, someone will mail me a single popcorn kernel that didn't pop. I'll get out a fresh kernel, tape it to a piece of paper and mail it back to them.
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Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.
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I trust people too much, and the other tragedy is I can't say no.
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I think some people have a rare ability to focus. As a player, Earl Thomas has it. When he was at practice or in a game, he was always on; he was right there.
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Oscar Wilde always makes me smile - with respect and admiration. His short stories prove that it is possible to be both sarcastic, even cynical, but deeply compassionate. Just seeing the cover of one of Wilde's books in a bookshop makes me smile.
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One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India.
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When you first get fame, you're so insecure that you just become a ding dong.
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When you make new musicals, you have the great freedom and the great burden that it can be changed.
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It's a little-appreciated fact that most of the animals in our ocean make light. I've spent most of my career studying this phenomenon called bioluminescence. I study it because I think understanding it is critical to understanding life in the ocean where most bioluminescence occurs.
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The art world's quite elitist. I tend to skirt around that world.
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We're not good at propping up old carcasses. We want to be on top of what's vital at any particular time, and not just hold onto something because it has a name.
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I love it when people who don't normally see fashion shows see them, because they find it so exciting.
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One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.
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If I wasn't an actor and I watched my films, I could easily be like 'This guy's a clown,' you know?
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When you freefall for 7,000 feet it doesn't feel like you're falling: it feels like you're floating, a bit like scuba diving.
