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 look at that person and I'm like, That's not Kelli White. That's not who I am, who I started out to be.
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When you are editing, the final master is Aristotle and his poetics. You might have a terrific episode, but if people are falling out because there are just too many elements in it, you have to begin to get rid of things.
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Once my paintings are complete, the model no longer lives in the painting as themselves. I see something bigger, more symbolic - an archetype.
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Some weeks there's no writing, and some weeks are full of writing.
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Once, after a long week, I felt so insecure that I decided to make a list of people who thought I was funny even if I didn't think I was. At the top of the list, I wrote, 'Garry Shandling.' His early praise protected me like a comedy-writer version of Harry Potter's scar.
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I want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.
