Ben Mendelsohn Quotes
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Gee I don't know, I just want to get home.
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Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.
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I've never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I've only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.
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I'm very independent, creatively, always trying to push myself - and I think that comes from my mother.
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When I was in my late 30s, I lit a figure on fire on Baker Beach in San Francisco. It was me, a friend, and maybe eight people, tops. There wasn't any premeditation to it at all. It was really just a product of San Franciscan bohemian milieu.
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Daniel, my big brother, is eight years older. I'm lucky he didn't mind hanging out with his little sister and my younger brother.
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I struggled for many, many years following 'Music and Lyrics' - I mean really struggled.
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I've made up my mind. I'll take my court martial.
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My grandmother was energetic and fearless - a talented poet and songwriter. She was also interested in chemistry and history and medicine, taking care of the people in her hacienda in Mexico, delivering babies. She could have become anything, but this was the 1930s, and she was forced into an arranged marriage.
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I have always been the girl who keeps on trying. I try! I try!
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It's fascinating how much of our sense of attractiveness and feminine identity is bound up in our hair.
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Climate change does not respect border; it does not respect who you are - rich and poor, small and big. Therefore, this is what we call 'global challenges,' which require global solidarity.
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Congress has a responsibility to review research paid for by hard-working American taxpayers.
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Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering.
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I'm a workaholic.
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Scamorza, an Italian curd cheese often labelled 'smoked mozzarella,' melts fantastically well.
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I always wanted to be a singer, but none of my friends thought I could sing.
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Bourgeois society continuously brings forth the Jew from its own entrails.
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I tend to choose collaborators who are more courageous than I am. I think it's good for me.
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In general, exchange reactions for the lighter isotopes have equilibrium constants sufficiently different from unity, so that the ratios of concentrations of the isotopes in two compounds which are in equilibrium differ by a few per cents in nearly all cases.
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I took some voice lessons here and there as a teenager but nothing too serious. I started taking it more seriously when I was in Miss Saigon. I needed to improve my technique in order to survive doing that show as many time a week as I was doing it. It's not an easy show to sing, so I needed all the help I could get.
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I can think of matches I played where I played one or two points perfectly, and that gave me a thrill.
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Nonfiction is more personal for me. It's more personal in that it's more direct, and actually it's always been more direct, even when I first started doing pieces.
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I think there's a lot of mythos about what's required in acting.
