Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
I got live tweeted once by someone who was opposite my home in some rented accommodation. He was actually describing on twitter what I was doing. 'I took a shirt off, I went to the window, I put a shirt back on... ' And I've got blinds in my flat!
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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Mum and Dad were very much friends and up for life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up; they just taught me to be me.
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If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
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I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
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I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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I want to be free... free to develop my art.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.
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Being on TV is similar to being an athlete. You get no second chances.
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I've been telling anyone willing to listen that banks have a tendency to sit on time bombs while convincing themselves that they are conservative and nonvolatile.
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If you put too much pressure on the Palestinian Authority, it will collapse - it will disappear - and Israel will have to formally re-occupy the West Bank and assume responsibility for the Palestinians there. The United States doesn't want that. Israel doesn't really want that.
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It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.
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Is the human race a universal constructor?
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How heartening it is to know that Ken Loach is still out there making committed, polemical cinema, so long as you don't have to watch it. Never go near a Ken Loach film unless you're trying to sleep with a socialist. If you are, however, Land And Freedom should do the trick.
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I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day.
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I hardly ever watch the news... I love reading newspapers, but I know they're dying out.
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The toughest decision is always whether to open a restaurant. Two or three bad months, and you could be out of business.
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I got live tweeted once by someone who was opposite my home in some rented accommodation. He was actually describing on twitter what I was doing. 'I took a shirt off, I went to the window, I put a shirt back on... ' And I've got blinds in my flat!
