Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
We all want to escape our circumstances, don't we? Especially if you are an actor.
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As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I can't help but notice in so many stories, plays, poems that I read, the sort of breadcrumbs of fairytale techniques, so I'm very excited when I notice that.
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Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.
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My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.
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I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night.
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I've worked with homeless kids, kids in foster care, and I've never met a kid who couldn't be reached.
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The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
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There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.
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The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.
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I do believe that all of the world needs reform. The reform must take place everywhere.
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I weirdly feel very natural, in the physicality that comes my way, whether it's guns, cars or whatever. For some reason, it's second nature to me.
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My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.
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I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.
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There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!
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A man really determines himself by what he does.
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I had been out there long enough. I had not seen my family for four years.
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The maximum expression of running dogs is the Iditarod. You enter a state of primitive exaltation, and you never return. You're never normal again.
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I am simply not interested in the pots and pans affair, and neither can I bring myself to be interested in the same. I have such great cooks in the family that I would rather manage the other affairs and leave the kitchen to those who know it best.
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Rise with the hour for which you were made.
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In order to find the edge, you must risk going over the edge.
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For avoiding nonsense in general, we might accumulate millions of censors. For all we know, this 'negative meta-knowledge' - about patterns of thought and inference that have been found defective or harmful - may be a large portion of all we know.
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In every detail a city should reflect that human beings are sacred and that they are equal.
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We all want to escape our circumstances, don't we? Especially if you are an actor.
