Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
My first, big, silly role at school was as Arthur Crocker-Harris in Rattigan's 'The Browning Version,' where my job was to make school-masters' wives weep with recognition.
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Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.
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In the end, I think the majority of Romanian society will understand that if we respect environmental protection standards, if we have benefits in taxes, royalties, jobs, we should do what all the modern countries in Europe and beyond are doing to take advantage of their natural resources.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
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New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.
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I'm very passionate about my two Dobermans, Stella and Mr Jonty. I go on and on and on about them, and people have to tell me to shut up before I get out pictures of them.
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
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The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
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It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.
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Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?
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There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
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Giving only 50% of your fortune is not enough.
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When we were shooting 'Oz,' my wife was doing 'Beauty and the Beast' on Broadway, singing and dancing. It was an interesting dichotomy in our house.
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A lot of my fans are young and hip and enjoy my pop album and know the lyrics to those songs as well, which is a real compliment to me.
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Everybody has a story... and a scream.
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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Politics ruins the character.
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McQueen is an astonishing film maker. He uses really unusual shots and builds incredible dramatic tension.
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We all understand that the Affordable Care Act is not working perfectly. In fact, any major piece of legislation like this has to be tweaked over time, has to be improved over time.
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My mom is many times responsible for getting us all together, but we trade off at each other's houses. My brother and I are actors and are traveling a lot of our job.
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I love teaching creative writing, and I think I'm good at it, but in a different life, I could have been teaching elementary school.
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My first, big, silly role at school was as Arthur Crocker-Harris in Rattigan's 'The Browning Version,' where my job was to make school-masters' wives weep with recognition.
