Ben Mendelsohn Quotes
I think now there's much more of a confessional culture. That's not my bag. I come from a slightly older school of thought: 'give 'em nothin.' You don't plead guilty.
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I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
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Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women.
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I'm guilty of it myself, sort of thinking, 'Classic novels: snoozeville.' But there is a huge amount of wonderful material.
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I think I've written about family and things in 'Taipei' which could be considered Asian culture.
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School after Labor Day is now the law of the land in Maryland.
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When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils.
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There is no reason why any public school district in our state should be on a four-day school week. If anything, we should be extending the school year.
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London is the financial capital of Europe, a great platform to America and Asia. I love the fact that in British culture you can be whoever you want, and people don't even look at you. I don't feel that in Paris or Milan.
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I have a real interest in baking. I'd love to go to culinary school. That's actually my plan: to graduate high school and go to culinary school.
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I'm 18, I'm going to graduate high school in a few months.
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I never wanted to be a director. I came into this industry by the little door, so I never learned anything; I never went to school. Actors will tell you I'm very precise. I just have the intuition of doing things.
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I was very energetic and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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I'd been kind of a hiccup in my parents' lives. They lost track of me and I didn't know what I was going to do with myself. And then fate reached in and took me in its hands. I was discovered right out of high school and started getting work.
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I think if I was 5-foot-3, I would have been really popular and dated a lot more in high school. I didn't develop like the pretty girl.
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Everything I did in high school was focused on microbiology, looking at things like algae under a microscope for hours on end. When I was 13, I saved up $100 to buy a good used microscope. I was obsessed with microorganisms.
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During its first year of operation, Florida Virtual School had 77 students. The next year, it had 476 students; then 2,489 students the year after that.
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When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union leader.
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It wasn't until I was 18, when I was graduating high school, that I went and bought a guitar on a whim.
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My only real insecurities in high school were having such long legs and thick hair — things I’m so very grateful for now.
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I've always known that singing was some sort of calling for me. It comes naturally.
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When you're young, the goal is to have a hit. You get a little older and the goal becomes to get to make another record.
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A single moment spent in a business meeting or at a pub is more than enough to reveal the basic human truth that we are all faking it most of the time. We congratulate a rival on a triumph when actually we are choking on spite. We are cordial and attentive to crashing bores.
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A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.
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I think now there's much more of a confessional culture. That's not my bag. I come from a slightly older school of thought: 'give 'em nothin.' You don't plead guilty.
