Ben Mendelsohn Quotes
'Slow West' is a western, and it's sort of a twist on the genre stylistically, I think, from what I understand going in.
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There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.
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Every entrepreneur knows how agonizingly difficult it is to make the decision to give it your all, knowing that failure is inevitable; the successful ones know that the only way to get back up is through learning from that failure.
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If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
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Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit.
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Establishing the rights for gay people to be married would cost the Australian government nothing financially and would gain for you worldwide respect from people like us and, of course, would change lives enormously - the lives of gay people and of their friends and of their families and therefore of Australia as a whole.
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Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.
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Fashion intersects a lot with art and film and music, and that was appealing to me. I read a bunch of fashion blogs and wanted to be part of the community.
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When I work on a movie, I never aim for records, collections or the number one position. I always concentrate on my work and look for ways to improve my acting abilities. I also advise my co-stars not to concentrate on these pretty issues and just focus on acting.
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I think the art world heightens the intensity of desires for inclusion, and the humiliations of exclusion, which is why it's a great place to circulate when you are in the lucky position, as I am, of not wanting or needing anything from anyone.
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I'm very picky about what I'll do and the message the film has in it.
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An example of my average week would be the gym on Monday; Tuesday will be a technical session. I practice running and high jump on Thursday and then have another technical session at the weekend.
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I look at the film as an opportunity to see some bountifully creative minds do something that I could not do - tell the story with images. I can't wait to see what they do.
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I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
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Doing good isn't that hard. It's just doing a lot of good that is very hard. If your aims are modest, you can accomplish an awful lot. When your aims become elevated beyond a reasonable level, you not only don't accomplish much, you can cause a great deal of damage.
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That was the stuff of other lives, he was waiting for his to begin. He got in the habit of walking around the trailer and asking aloud, 'Who knows?' He said, 'Who knows?' For no one knew. He meant, anything could happen. A spinning coin, still balanced on its rim, may fall in either direction.
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There is a direct connection that cannot be severed between the diplomatic process and growth and prosperity.
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I have been asked this question over and over again: 'Dr. Jeremiah, do you think God is finished with America?' But that is the wrong question. The right question is: 'Is America finished with God?'
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I didn't do my job. These types of games hurt.
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I think we fall in love and become adults and become citizens in a way by writing stories about ourselves.
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My new favorite thing is to wake up in hotel rooms, and write on the hotel pads. Usually, it's nothing. I leave it in a hotel and get really embarrassed about the maid picking it up, wondering what in the hell I'm talking about.
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'Slow West' is a western, and it's sort of a twist on the genre stylistically, I think, from what I understand going in.
