Ben Mendelsohn Quotes
'Star Wars' is populated by so many great types; who wouldn't want to be a Han Solo kind of dude?
Quotes to Explore
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The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great library founded by Ptolemy I in 286 BC.
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From when I was young, I wanted to be an action hero. I always dreamed about being an action star. So finally, I made it.
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I think I'd make a pretty good president, and they have a great pension plan.
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We often feel a twinge of guilt over our own fascination with presidential candidates' wives - as if we are secretly reading the 'Star' for our campaign information instead of the policy journals.
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I love watching great TV, whether it's to educate myself more on my craft or to just simply be entertained.
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During the course of my football and business careers, I have had the great honor of meeting and associating with many outstanding leaders.
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Fage does not make great yogurt.
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There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.
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I think we raised about 20,000 pounds. There was a live performance thing so we thought we'd donate the equipment for an online charity in Britain. I hated to part with my guitar, but it was for such a great cause.
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Some kids spent their allowance going to see 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'; I spent mine on a great-looking lamp I'd found at the flea market and a ceramic bowl from a neighborhood garage sale.
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
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The two great aims of industrialism - replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy - seem close to fulfillment.
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Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.
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I think you kind of hope for people to gush over movies, but I think the opposite way is great sometimes, too. I'd rather have a movie that you're angry about and that you're talking about the next day, than something you forget about when the popcorn goes into the trash.
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I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.
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It's never been important to be a huge star or to have some breakout role. If you're the lead, you get a lot more screen time and you get a lot more chances to develop that character more thoroughly than you would if you do it in a little supporting part.
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What's so great about Sundance is that they only accept such a small handful of films per year for dramatic competition, so you know when you're going to Sundance that you're going to see top-quality projects.
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It's great when women support women. We need more women out there supporting women.
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I have no great message to the world.
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God shapes the world by prayer.
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I've been an executive and a progressive executive with a record of accomplishments.
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Does it sound outrageous to you that military spending for fiscal year 2000 will be almost $290 billion and all other domestic discretionary spending, such as education, job training, housing, Amtrak, medical research, environment, Head Start and many other worthwhile programs will total $246 billion, the biggest disparity in modern times ?
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Being in your element is not only about aptitude, it's about passion: it is about loving what you do...tapping into your natural energy and your most authentic self.
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'Star Wars' is populated by so many great types; who wouldn't want to be a Han Solo kind of dude?
