Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.
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In general, I find that for videos the acting is more realistic.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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We're proud to be lifetime musicians and a band that lives like a band and loves the music and gives our lives to it.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we'd know who she was?
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As a businessperson, I don't have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change.
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
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I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
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I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous.
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We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
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I still sing every day - in the shower or on the set all day. I'm sure everyone will tell you that I never shut up. But it's not in the capacity that I would like to.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.
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God is directly perceived by the mind, but not by this ordinary mind. It is the pure mind that perceives God, and at that time this ordinary mind does not function. A mind that has the slightest trace of attachment to the world cannot be called pure. When all the impurities of the mind are removed, you may call that mind Pure Mind or Pure Ātman.
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What happens when the guy who runs the reactor gets out of bed wrong or decides, for some reason, that he wants to override his instruction sheet some afternoon?
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Anyone who has dead straight hair wants curls.
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Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.
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Honestly, there have been some pretty good Marvel games, but I don't think there's ever been a great one.
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The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.
