Benedict Wong Quotes
Ridley Scott is a cinematic master and a great man. It was a real honour working with him on 'Prometheus.'
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I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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You have to believe that people don't want what you think they're going to like, you know? They want what you like. Once you start doing that, you actually start connecting with people.
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One thing that bugs me in comedy is when somebody does a fake cry, you know, like they fake cry in a comedy. But in a drama they'll really cry. That bugs me.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
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Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day.
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No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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With Twitter and other social networking tools, you can get a lot of advice from great people. I learn more from Twitter than any survey or discussion with a big company.
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I'm competing with everyone, but it's okay because they're not aware. I can't shut that impulse off. And I'm glad, because that impulse keeps me on the treadmill. If I didn't have it, I would be like, "Great! Ten minutes! I'm good." But if I'm competing, I can see what level someone's on and I can top it.
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It is difficult to imagine anyone having any real hopes for the human race in the face of the fact that the great majority of men still believe that the universe is run by a gaseous vertebrate of astronomical heft and girth, who is nevertheless interested in the minutest details of the private conduct of even the meanest man.
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It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.
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Conservation destroys the present. If we are only busy preserving the past, we are not living in the present and unable to look forward. I am against conservation. We should let young people move forward, whether we agree with them or not. We should let new things happen.
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Ridley Scott is a cinematic master and a great man. It was a real honour working with him on 'Prometheus.'
