Ben Mendelsohn Quotes
You can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it indefinitely.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there.
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In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.
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I love rock n' rollers.
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I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess – perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through about 100 revisions. If anything, that's an understatement. If there's another author out there who does this sort of revision, I would really like to meet him. Maybe we could form some sort of support group.
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I believe in stopping work and eating lunch.
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From a population point of view, it's actually very important that as few people as possible get the flu. People getting the flu is not a private matter. The risk for healthy people is really about your friends and neighbors and fellow travelers.
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There are competing studies on how much crime drops or doesn't drop when there are strict rules on gun possession and sale. I don't think there's any question that New York City's very tough laws have reduced violence.
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I didn't really enjoy school in general.
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I think some people like me because I'm different. I don't think like everybody else. People are so tied up in the worst parts of technology these days. They live a life pressing buttons. They don't use their imaginations.
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I respect Marvel as a company, and I think they're great, but never in my life have I looked up to being a superhero.
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Often women are pitted against each other for an easy joke, so they fight or steal each other's boyfriends. That's not really true to life.
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I've done two 'Hamlets,' two 'Lears,' three 'Midsummer Night's Dreams' - I've done most of these plays more than once, and every time I direct them, I learn things.
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'Undertones of War' by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but it is a great book.
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Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought, what an awful word.
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The move to hide aging is sort of sad. But it's a wonderful thing to celebrate our aging.
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I don't have a great deal of stress job-wise in my life, and that feels good.
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It takes intelligence and training, self-discipline and fine-sensibility, to gain renewed life through leisure occupation. America now suffers spiritual poverty, and art must become more fully American life before her leisure can become culture.
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I don't regret being topless in certain things, but there were some things in 'EastEnders' where there was no reason for me to be topless.
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You can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it indefinitely.
