Ben Mendelsohn Quotes
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Yes, because when you're in love, you are shy.
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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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Beginning with the No Child Left Behind law and continuing today with Race to the Top, the federal emphasis on standardized assessments has become so excessive that it has modified state and district behavior in troubling ways.
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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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When I first read the script, I realized that Katie would have to be played as a rather down-to-earth person.
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People who go to concerts hear Beethoven's symphonies hundreds of times, but 'Star Trek' is recorded, so it's not played all the time.
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Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, except the principle of fear predominates in his character; and then he is never made radically better for its influence.
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Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain.
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When I entertain, I want to have fun. But I'm also a control person. I don't go in for those everyone-in-the-kitchen cooking scenes. So if I want to be with my guests, I have to do everything - or nearly everything - in advance.
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If you're a 'character actor,' you get hired to play baddies a lot.
