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 have referred to myself as an accidental activist on more than one occasion.
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With traditional school visits, I also get to speak with people who haven't read my books and talk about my writing process as well as the serious aspects I write about.
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Through the last few decades it the art object has been ripped off the wall and twisted through every conceivable permutation, yet back to the wall it insists on going.
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I often play women who are not essentially good or likable, and I often go through a stage where I hate them. Then I end up loving and defending them.
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Gay marriage will be universally accepted in time. But if I may be so bold as to say to gays and lesbians, don't wait for that time to arrive. Just as my father and his generation did not 'wait' for their civil rights, nor should you. The toothpaste ain't going back in the tube. The tide has turned.
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I think there's a lot of mythos about what's required in acting.
