Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
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Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make life only bearable.
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There's so much that I can give as a human being - and I know that.
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All of life is a foreign country.
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I'm mostly vegetarian.
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A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.
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The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.
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A different language is a different vision of life.
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The great thing about life - I'd rather not know and just hope I'm happy and healthy and I feel as good about my life as I do now.
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From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.
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The reason behind Hrithik being the best dancer is that he never takes his work for granted.
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Sometime early in life, I developed the notion - one which I have never relinquished - that writing a novel is the very finest thing a person can do.
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I view myself as a dealmaker.
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I have enough attention already. More, I don't really need.
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I think our intelligence is a source of toxicity to nature and discomfort to ourselves unless our values are based on planetary values, are linked to the values of the rest of nature. Intelligence is not a license to trample. The proper role of intelligence in a planetary ecology is that of gardener, caregiver and maintainer of balance.
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I can't imagine a successful comedy movie without a successful comedy performance at the heart of it.
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Standup comedy is inordinately difficult. If doing something else for a living will make you equally happy, choose that instead. I'm serious. Comedy is punishing.
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Tragedy massages the human ego even as comedy deflates it. ... Tragedy pits us against large foes and the trip wire is our own character. ... In comedy we fall afoul of one another. Comedy depends on social life, on our behavior in groups. In tragedy you can observe one human against the gods. In comedy it's one human versus other humans and often one man (or woman if I'm writing it) against her own worst impulses.
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I want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.
