Ben Mendelsohn Quotes
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Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than people expect.
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Do your eye shadow first, then your foundation. That way, you can clean up any mess without starting all over again.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons.
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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
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The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.
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We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.
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I always have bananas with me for energy.
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You like the style of the people you like because it reflects something inside them.
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I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.
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The bad boy: always more fun.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So, performing was always part of what I was. I don't know if it I enjoyed the response I got from people or if I liked having an audience, but there's something in me that wanted to perform.
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At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root.
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I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them.
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I would be ecstatic if the very first writer to step foot in a Storyknife cabin was an Alaska Native woman writer.
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High IQ individuals don't like surprises and are pessimistic, because it's logical.
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I feel about John's gospel like I feel about my wife; I love her very much, but I wouldn't claim to understand her.
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When the OutKast sound changed and I started producing my own records, I would mirror what I thought that character doing that music would look like. As the sound got a little wilder, freakier and funkier, so did the clothes. Then when the sound got more sophisticated, the clothes changed again.
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It was nice to finish up Stanford. I think I always felt that I would be there for four years and graduate, and definitely didn't want to leave early. A degree was definitely a plus, and I was having a lot of fun in school. But after football, you know, I don't know. I really did enjoy studying architecture; it was a blast.
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If you're a 'character actor,' you get hired to play baddies a lot.
