Manu Bennett Quotes
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I made a lot of money, and I want to give something back to my country.
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Expenditures rise to meet income.
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I find that men are far more vain than women.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
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Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.
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One of the great responsibilities we have as a society is to educate ourselves, along with the next generation, about which substances are worth ingesting, and for what purpose, and which are not.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.
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A dead end street is a good place to turn around.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.
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You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who's ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but when it rings.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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As long as you keep one foot in the real world while the other foot's in a fairy tale, that fairy tale is going to seem kind of attainable.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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If we really want to cherish religious freedom, people who want to believe that same-sex marriage should take place, they have a right to believe that, and people who want to believe it's inappropriate, we should not demonize those people - if we really believe in religious liberty.
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My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.
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History is full of examples of regimes that were oppressing at home and aggressive abroad, and I can't think of too many liberal democracies engaging in counterfeiting, drug running, missile proliferation, and just about any other illegal activity you can think of as North Korea does.
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With acting, I always feel conscious of what I'm doing.
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I have never anticipated success. I choose work, give it my best shot, and leave it.
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It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.
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When you reach a certain level, you live in a bubble when all you think, dream and breathe is becoming the best athlete in the world.
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The best physique I ever had was when I was ballet dancing.
