Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
I've always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.
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If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.
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Of course, we all watch James Bond with envy - knowing the U.S. government would never pay for the lifestyle he enjoys.
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Developing new products is labour- intensive. So is producing the capital goods needed to make them. These jobs disappear when innovation stalls.
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By far, the best moment of my big league career was when I caught the last out at the World Series.
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It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.
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I guess Species was a movie made for me and hence I bagged the role. In fact even when acting, I never thought the outcome would be so good which I think it was! The entire role was a challenge. I was to be this strange yet sexy thing which was challenging!
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Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.
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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
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I don't like to look typical.
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There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them.
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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
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You may be a princess or the richest woman in the world, but you cannot be more than a lady.
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The audiences love to see me fight on screen.
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I have a control problem. I hate the feeling of not being in control.
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Trust the young people; trust this generation's innovation. They're making things, changing innovation every day. And all the consumers are the same: they want new things, they want cheap things, they want good things, they want unique things. If we can create these kind of things for consumers, they will come.
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I'm happy to see book clubs on TV. Talking about books has always been an important and invigorating part of reading them, and it's nice that that is getting attention from the media.
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All progress means war with Society.
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I believe that anything in this world is fair game for a creative exercise.
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There is no greater ladder into the middle class than education.
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I've always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.
