Manu Bennett Quotes
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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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To me the definition of true masculinity – and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
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We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
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'Family Ties' was a very successful situation comedy. And, in almost every respect, it functioned on a day to day basis like a well-run, well conditioned basketball team. The show was performed live each week in front of a studio audience on Friday night.
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My novels are about a generation of Americans who lived between 1940 and 2000, who resisted the postwar political and cultural forces by choosing a wandering life of impoverishment and wonder. Inevitably, race and economics are a big part of their stories. Childhood, childishness, and children are never far.
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Lyrics have become so dumbed down nowadays. People don't want to have to think about lyrics anymore, they just want to be told something. Until these great things started happening with us, I'd really given up on reaching people like that.
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The best physique I ever had was when I was ballet dancing.
