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I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf.


Ben Whishaw

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LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick?
LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said.
LIKE I I like to arrange things and designate.
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SY MONTGOMERY Oh God, are you supposed to collect things? I don't collect things. I like throwing things away.
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PIERCE BROWN I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of s...
DIANE ARBUS I used to dislike it, but now I like it more and more, feeling small. I like feeling like a little s...
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ALAN MAGNANI Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.
BODHIDHARMA I knew that alpaca wool, with its cashmere-soft weave, had been transformed into cuddly knick-knacks...
DAVID ROBERTS I was, like, a total cliched '80s child. I had Barbies, obviously, as well as My Little Ponies a...
NATALIE PORTMAN I don't like precious things; I don't spend thousands of dollars on jewellery for myself. I ...
ERIN WASSON I like to eat good food. I cook and collect wine. I like going for long walks when I can.
ERIC ALLMAN No!
I don’t love you!
I just like you, a little.

Your lips are sweet,
an...
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T. J. MILLER The paradise of prayers is like a palace full of precious things.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Oh yeah. It's like Charlie said on TV, it's not him against Ben. He has to go against the Steelers' ...
DAVID FRYE I collect imported teas, I have a few cupboards full! It's like wine, each has it's own flav...
MAGGIE GRACE I used to be teased for the way I wore my hair at school. I used to do things like wear a different-...
FLORENCE GRIFFITH JOYNER I was working on a job somewhere one day and a girl came and asked me if I knew who would collect th...
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MOSES MALONE You must have traveled all night,” she heard herself say.
“I had to come back early.” Sh...
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PETE BURNS I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.
ALEISTER CROWLEY Like most people, I used to wear clothing off the rack. But having them fitted to me makes a really ...
LAUREN CONRAD The paradise of praying is like a palace of full of precious things.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Life should be like the precious metals, weigh much in little bulk
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MIKA So, in some ways, the political songs tend to be a bit more like reportage, whereas the love songs t...
BILLY BRAGG I like crazy shoes or unusual cowboy boots and I collect big belt buckles.
PATRICIA CORNWELL I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big...
BEN FOLDS I read. I order books from the States. I literally go into bookstores, close my eyes, and take thing...
STANLEY KUBRICK All I know is that he looks to me like a top-shelf closer.
LEO MAZZONE I like the way (Bochy) made Ben bunt,
DAVE ROBERTS He's admitting he has a problem and would like to get out to arrange to deal with family affairs,
CHARLES WOOD I focused my life on things that are a little more dependable, like my family and things that actual...
ADAM SCOTT I've always loved flowers, as a little girl I'd collect flower objects and little flower boo...
AERIN LAUDER I collect crystals and gemstones, and I've been collecting them since I was a little girl. They ...
ISABEL LUCAS Ben and I built Ben & Jerry's on the idea that business has a responsibility to the community and en...
JERRY GREENFIELD There's still a few little things I'd like to improve on by (tomorrow).
COURTNEY KUPETS She filed those moments away like precious documents, wore them smooth with memory, collected them l...
JENNIFER E. SMITH We changed things up and were running some totally different things than they've seen. They saw some...
JAVIER LOPEZ I like tweaking the studio and wiring things up almost as much as making music, so that's kind o...
TYCHO Things today ‘sure ain’t like they used to be’. They’ve changed, moved on, progressed.
FENNEL HUDSON That was the thing about Ben. He could get away with saying shit like that. I totally couldn’t. I ...
BILL KONIGSBERG Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf/ Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH I suppose I sometimes used to act like I wasn't a human being... Sometimes I look back at myself...
MADONNA CICCONE It's a piece of legislation which is packed away in a little box and left on a shelf.
ALEXANDER NEILL Comedians are innately programmed to pick up oddities like mispronounced words, upside-down books on...
BOB NEWHART I happen to like Precisionism. It talks to me because I collect Cubism.
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WITHNAIL AND I Every snapshot collector has obsessions. Some only collect photos of cars. Others like World War II,...
RANSOM RIGGS I am all about the complicated ice cream. Ben & Jerry's is my go-to. I like as many things i...
MATT MCGORRY i want to explode in a cloud and be like a lightning striking the earth i want to lift the world and...
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STEPHEN COLBERT I'm blessed to be working with wizards like Vishal Bhardwaj as well as many young composers.
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BEN JONSON Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towar...
BEN ELTON I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
BEN JOHNSON I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so ...
BEN JOHNSON In the court of the movie Owner, none criticized, none doubted. And none dared speak of art. In the ...
BEN HECHT Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effo...
BEN HECHT There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
BEN JOHNSON Blueness doth express trueness.
BEN JONSON All concord's born of contraries.
BEN JONSON The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world ...
BEN STEIN